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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 6d

Any fool can see the head of state is naked, a complete phony.

I see The Emperor’s New Clothes referred to more often, and wondered: is it about the vanity of a leader? Or about citizens that keep nodding at what they know isn’t there?

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Current Preoccupations, week 39 - The European Review of Books

Any fool can see that the head of state is naked, that he is a complete phony — except for himself. Such appears to be the premise of The Emperor’s Clothes, a fairy tale I see referred to more and mor...

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 14d

Lenin youth is made to salute an embalmed dictator, becomes Catholic schoolgirl, then historian of repression, and writer on sabbatical in Rome, with a book on the Bulgarian gulag — plus she met Pope Francis at the Biennale ✊

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Texting with ... Lilia Topouzova - The European Review of Books

I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 20d

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Newsletter - The European Review of Books

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 20d

Eurovision?

This weekend it is Intervision: Russia + US + China + Brazil ao

And Europe?

Europe is busy perfecting its eye-roll routine…

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 21d

Train punctuality:

🇩🇪 #Germany: 70%
🇵🇱 #Poland: 80%
🇺🇦 #Ukraine: 95%

Hard not to be humbled by this.

Oksana Forostyna reviews The Train Arrives on Time by Marichka Paplauskaite

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Glory to the rails – The European Review of Books

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 25d

Sixteen children. A dynasty across Europe. Still haunting politics.

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Queen of the night – The European Review of Books

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jul 29

One of the year’s best just got longlisted for the Booker:

One Boat, from @jcbuckley.bsky.social

Buckley’s writing really stands out.
I actually texted him this year, and asked:

‘How did you learn to write?’

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Texting with … Jonathan Buckley – The European Review of Books

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jul 5

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jul 5

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jul 5

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jul 5

The ERB injects universities, libraries, think tanks, publishers, R&D departments investment bankers, hedgefund managers with ideas from philosophy, literature, arts.

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For libraries and institutions – The European Review of Books

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jul 5

Beloved Blueskyans,
I need a little help
—there's a reward.

The ERB is growing: major universities across Europe and the US are subscribing. But we need more. Please forward, repost or email the text in the reply to who can subscribe.

If you help, I hereby grant you the title of INTELLECTUAL.

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jun 29

Magic

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Luigi Prosperi @luigiprosperi.bsky.social · Jun 29

Sunday reading: “How to abandon an archive. When an authoritarian regime collapses, what happens to the archives of its secret police?” europeanreviewofbooks.com/how-to-aband... on the archives of Syrian secret services (via @europeanreview.bsky.social, by @uungor.bsky.social and Ali Ajasem)

How to abandon an archive – The European Review of Books

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 20

Unpaywalled: The European review of love itself.

In « The great schizophrenia » Nikianna Dinenis unpacks Marlen Haushofer’s Killing Stella & the enemy hiding in those we have to love.

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

@sanderpleij.bsky.social texted with Daniel Gascón, Madrid-based editor of @letraslibres.com, a Spanish-language literary magazine. Daniel tips the writer Mariano Gistain.

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jun 16

Adult content. People! We have adult content. Go to our website!
Free adult content, now what about that?

The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 13

Un-paywalled: Men in the off hours. Our editor Fernanda Eberstadt on French artist Gustave Caillebotte’s subversion of traditional gender roles: nude males at their toilette and grumpy clothed women reading the newspaper.

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