RT @ETemelkuran: It is such a delight to be a part of the @european_review ‘s last edition. The editor asked me “Any fascinating stories?”,…

On October 7, 2023, 70 Thai farmworkers were killed in Hamas attacks, highlighting Israeli agriculture's reliance on Thai migrants—contrary to Zionism’s ideals of Jews working the land. Anthropologist Matan Kaminer explores this in Capitalist Colonial.

Issue 7 is waiting for you in bookstores around the world. Here, you can see it at the H'ART Museum Shop in Amsterdam. Explore the latest essays, stories, and ideas in a breathtakingly beautiful design. Where will you pick up your copy?

Sergei Lebedev’s The Lady of the Mine (2025) unfolds in a Ukrainian coal-mining town, where the past lies buried—until one day, corpses rain from the sky after a jetliner is shot down. Read an excerpt by following the link:

Here’s something to lift the January gloom: 30% off digital + print subscriptions to the European Review of Books. Dive into essays, stories and ideas that keep the grey at bay. Offer ends after (blue) Monday. Find the offer here:

Wiegertje Postma: « Each carpet pattern is wild in its own right (I imagine you could stomach looking at them for the length of exactly one brief hotel stay), but lugged together, I feel they have an almost hypnotic effect. » Read the article here:

Our editors picked their favorite photos from Issue Six George Blaustein: « That mermaid tattoo on the man’s right arm, tipped ninety degrees to the west: a work of art within a work of art. » Read this article and others by signing up:

Issue Six explores photography’s past & future. Editor’s pick: Blue Memoir by Andra Zoltai—boys playing in the Danube’s low waters. Sander Pleij: « This photo captures the human condition in one image: a beautiful tragedy. » Get a free week:

What ties Gretel to her witch? Elina Nerantzi delves into Louise Glück’s Gretel in Darkness to uncover Gretel’s “happily ever after” and her haunting inability to forget. Read the full essay in Issue Six. Sign up now for a week of free access:

May we present: ERB Issue Seven, in a shade of brown usually found only in the richest, milkiest of Belgian chocolate pralines. Subscribe now to have this and following issues delivered at your door. Single copies are also available in our shop.

A sneak peek at Issue Seven. Inside: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party's favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, and even anti-apartheid country music. Stay tuned.

Issue Seven is almost here, in a shade of brown usually only found in the richest, milkiest of Belgian chocolate pralines. Another pralineal parallel: the real treat is on the inside.

In Issue Six, Werner Sollors explores the city’s ruins, the mystery of its unreadable cuneiform language, and the Persian Shah who shaped their journeys. Read it here:

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Poet Mia You isn’t a collector, but she does collect translations of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Her collection includes Italian, German, Castilian Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Frisian, and two Dutch editions. Sign up for our newsletter and get a free week of reading access!

In the short story Adania Shibli wrote for Issue Six, an engineer sits in his workspace, overlooking a puzzling, colorless cityscape of tightly stacked buildings. Read the story here:

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RT @nplusonemag: Tonight at the n+1 office! Join the editors of @european_review for readings and conversation. Entry is free; drinks are c…

Issue Seven is now in the capable hands of our printer @wilco_artbooks, and will roll off the presses mid-December!

People of NY & the surroundings thereof! Tomorrow night the ERB’s editors will be at @nplusonemag , interviewed by the legendary @markkrotov . Some readings, some arguments, some cheap beer, some good weird magazines. Join us! (& please RSVP)