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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · 3d

Your Spanish, my Spanish, our Spanish — along with that r curling off the tongue. Nora Muñiz’s essay asks what happens when a language translates itself into different versions — and somehow lands as the European Review of « Coge The Bus ». europeanreviewofbooks.com/my-tongue-is...

My tongue is Simón Bolívar's wet dream - The European Review of Books

My boyfriend had colombianized my Mexican. But my friends had also argentinized it, chileanized it, venezuelized it, ecuadorized it.

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

What kingship does to a little dude, and what a little dude does to kingship? « Child Kings », a pearl by Marek Maj.
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Child Kings - The European Review of Books

« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »

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

In war-torn Ukraine, trains still run like clockwork. How can such an impossibly efficient system hold together while Russia bombs cities and infrastructure daily? That’s the story in « Glory to the rails » — a review by Oksana Forostyna. Read here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/glory-to-the...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Doomsday Clock once meant nuclear war. In After Midnight, Alexander Etkind & Johanna Gautier-Morin trace catastrophic learning and how today’s « pluralistic » disasters arrive « without a bang but with a thousand whimpers ». Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/after-midnig...

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Frances Butler @frances-butler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Latest issue of @europeanreview.bsky.social has interesting piece on learning from catastrophe by @sashaetkind.bsky.social and @johannagautier.bsky.social with a letter in response from me #ClimateResponsibility #Louisiana #climateimpacts

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗣️ ISSUE NINE IS OUT! Alongside Patrick Doan’s vignettes, the heart of the ERB: stories, essays, and reviews — in our peculiar design with vivid images and un-killed darlings on 'level 2'.
Take a look:
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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Aug 22

We did it again! On Wednesday, we picked up Issue Nine. We gathered the team, brought along the ERB kid (a crucial part of the ritual, of course), and held Issue Nine in our hands for the first time. She’s growing, we’re growing.

Launch on 4 September.

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Aug 15

Attention! Uwaga! Uzmanību! Meet the cactus-man. We’re launching Issue Nine on 4 September. Blue, this time with a layer of aquamarine.

Right now it’s still at the printer’s. We will not dare rob you of that first-look moment — more soon.

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Aug 8

English or Turkish? Tipsy or çakırkeyf? What to do when picking a language doesn't go that easy? Ece Temelkuran’s One last round | Son bir şans — a letter to a bilingual editor — is now un-paywalled: europeanreviewofbooks.com/one-last-rou...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Aug 1

The biggest threat to cocoa production today? Cocoa production itself. But recovery is growing, led by a new generation of farmers. Powerful images by Maroussia Mbaye tell that story in « Re-generation ». Read it in front of the paywall: europeanreviewofbooks.com/re-generation/

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jul 25

What makes a good book title? « The Bible » is a good one, as it comes from the Greek word for « book » –– but it « can only be done once, unfortunately, » Peter Baldwin writes. Read his essay about the book titles –– the good, the bad, the ugly: europeanreviewofbooks.com/yellow-mello...

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The Bupkes @thebupkes.bsky.social · Jul 21

And speaking of the Schengen dialectic, what a great review of Stanley-Becker's book by @georgeblaustein.bsky.social of @europeanreview.bsky.social a few months back:
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Double negative – The European Review of Books

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

Making things up is « an opportunity to change ourselves », Samir Chadha writes in his review of the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth's (1959) 5 novels. Maybe changing ourselves begins by adding Hjorth’s novels to our summer reading list. Now un-paywalled: europeanreviewofbooks.com/to-grieve-to...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jul 15

« What does it mean for the mind to be at sea? » As the vacation season peaks and many of our readers head for the water, we highlight a piece from our Library that looks into that: Ben Carver’s review of Grelet’s Theory of the Solitary Sailor (2022). europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-coldest-...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jul 11

How does a French novel once banned for indecency become a moral story about a singing blueberry? Cecelia Ramsey's essay that looks into that, « Madame Blueberry’s insatiable want », is now in front of the paywall. Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/madame-blueb...

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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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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jul 4

What do we tell ourselves when trees simply vanish? We’ve put Ann Marie Wilson’s beautiful essay « Tree illness as metaphor » in front of the paywall for you to find out. Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/tree-illness...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 29

Page 50, if you have one of these – Issue Eight europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 28

One continent, forty countries, 65.000 kilometers. We’ve un-paywalled a retrospective and interview with Yamandú Roos — celebrating a decade of his photobook EUROPEANS and two decades of the project’s very first portrait — « Le Marseillais ».
 
See the pearl: bit.ly/20-years-of-...

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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.

Read « The great schizophrenia » here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-great-sc...

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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.

Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/texting-with...

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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.

Now free to read here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/men-in-the-o...

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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thread on Philippe Oehmke’s Schönwald. This enjoyable novel sheds light on an intriguing aspect of the German (and European) publishing psyche.

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 11

A 43,000-year-old Neanderthal fingerprint made headlines recently. But in Issue Four, Christy Wampole in her review of Trenton Holliday’s Cro-Magnon had already asked: what is « art before art »?

Read it in our Library: europeanreviewofbooks.com/art-before-a...

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The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social · Jun 6

185 km separate Minsk from Vilnius. While the journey to the capital of Belarus is quick, the ride back into the Schengen Area becomes an eternity.

We’ve unpaywalled Paula Domingo Pasarín’s travelogue: The shortest longest bus trip. Read it here: europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-shortest...

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