« The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »
Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.
On Jacob Israël de Haan’s Palestine and Arnold Zweig’s novel of post‑Zionist disillusionment
Language-learning and people-eating in Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi’s The Centre.
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Two winters in Istanbul. If you are a holder of a Russian passport, there are few places in the Western hemisphere that you can go without a visa.
Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?
Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?
Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.
Refugees and border guards in the Białowieża Forest. Scenes of violence play out behind a thick cover of trees, in a remote corner of Poland.
A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back
The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV
On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »
This extra edition is adorned with the Europe-maps that were created for the ERB by the architect Rem Koolhaas and our designer, Patrick Doan. We’ve included the ERB’s best writing on Europe. With Europas and bulls, the EU going to church, Liythuania: the thirty times loser of the Eurovision Song Contest, the puzzle of who’ll speak European, Curzio Malaparte and an editor that keeps a €0-bill in his wallet…
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A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?
Online, pigeon water is what we swim in and slather on ourselves.
The Eisenthür silver mine is real; the village below is entirely fictive.
On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Europe of European integration.
Mission: Impossible and Eurocentric stunts, from Hollywood to Hong Kong. What does an action movie want to be?
We’ve built it; now come live in it.
Or, the art of the error
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