Reviews

Jezus umarł w Polsce

Mikołaj Grynberg

Reviewed by Zuza Nazaruk

My Stupid Intensions

Bernardo Zannoni

Reviewed by Madeline Gressel

The Centre

Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi

Reviewed by Michael Erard

Ariane, A Russian Girl

Claude Anet

Reviewed by Fiona Bell

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  • Moscow on the Med

    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.


  • The coldest, cleanest water in Europe

    Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?


  • Ice queens, sex machines

    Insofar as erotica can ever be about something, what is Russia-themed erotica about?


  • What an animal isn’t

    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.


  • Jesus in the pines

    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.


  • Photographer, refugee, king

    A family’s travelogue from Phnom Penh to Paris and back


  • « The hope of future Pan-African socialism »

    A group of « skinny Black lads » enroll at Leipzig’s Karl Marx University in East Germany. An excerpt from Jackie Thomae’s novel Brothers.


  • The big beige books

    The most important unreviewed books of our times, reviewed. On Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China, Volumes I to IV


  • Schwarzeneggerology

    On Arnold, action cinema & Übermenschlichkeit. « Arnold Schwarzenegger was action cinema’s Adamic man, alternately entering and exiting normal human time. »

  • Europe Special 2024 – Extra Edition

    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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