Stichting European Review of Books
The magazine of culture and ideas. We build a space for deep, multilingual, independent writing, from Europe, and beyond.
THE EUROPEAN
« European », to us, is an incantation, for there are a thousand Europes: the common, the migrant, the tourist, the postcolonial Europe, the Schengen Europe, the Europe with euros and the one without them, the Europe of Eurovision, the prenational and post-national, and perhaps already the post-European Europe. We want to create an independent institution that endures, that broadens even the broadest definition of Europe.
REVIEW
A good essay is the antidote to the measly « opinion », the enemy of the airy platitude. We want avenues to the grand. The writing you want to read, and read again. We believe in depth over speed, in writers to be able to get it right, even if getting it right takes a mountain of drafts. That’s the kind of writing that drowns in clickbait, that perishes first when budgets run dry.
OF BOOKS
Yes, The European Review of Books… and film, and art, and music, theater, architecture, technology, games, culture, narrative, ideas, philosophy, geopolitics. Come what may — in forms of essay, criticism, travelogue, parody, poem. No rants and provocation — but pearls, stories and photography.
Donors
Matthew Specter 2Now more than ever, Europe-watchers need a place they can turn for high-level reflection on the European project, European identity and European traditions in the global conversation of cultures. I am excited by this handsomely produced jou...
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