{"product_id":"the-european-review-of-books-issue-11","title":"The European Review of Books Issue 11","description":"\u003cp\u003eA breath of fresh air as the summer heat sets in — sage. In this issue: a descent into European populist algorithms on TikTok, and a descent into the European unconscious. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s \u003cem\u003ePetrolio\u003c\/em\u003e on a French stage, and the birth of simultaneous translation on the stage of the Nuremberg Trials. The wartime lessons learned by Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust \u0026amp; Romain Roland in the 1910s, and the wartime lessons learned by a Ukrainian geese herder in the 2020s. A fishy kiss from Julio Cortázar, psychopathic AI, fathers and sons holding hands. Fiction by Ananda Devi, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo \u0026amp; Oksana Vasyakina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe European Review of Books is a magazine of culture and ideas, in print and online, in English and in a writer’s own tongue. We publish book-length print issues three times a year, and digital pieces each week. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNo \u003cem\u003ereview of books\u003c\/em\u003e reviews only books, nor does it merely review. We publish many kinds of writing: fiction, travelogue, provocation, parody, poem, come what may. In general we champion the essayistic mode. A good essay is the antidote to the measly « opinion », the enemy of the airy platitude. We want avenues to the arcane, the profane, the grand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ERB’s gambit is to publish both in English and in a writer’s mother tongue. Pieces written in Greek or Arabic or Italian or Polish or Dutch—or, or, or—will be available in English and in the original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat approach is an experiment, both strategic and romantic (not to say quixotic), in trans-linguistic editing. English is Europe’s ironic lingua franca. Ostensibly the language of the one country that has exited the EU, the English we actually speak is something else: post-American English? Eurish? Global English? Is it a connective tissue or a linguistic pall laid over the life of the mind? English is more and more a common denominator, but a common denominator for what? The fact that it’s possible to get by in English, that English is practically second-nature among young Europeans, can give the impression of an inclusive lingua franca, as frictionless as the flows of goods and capital. But it’s a fantasy, and to celebrate it is to celebrate a shallow internationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTherefore! The ERB is an English-language magazine that resists, or plays with, the seeming hegemony of English. Committed both to a true lingua franca and to exclusive fluencies, to translation and to the untranslatable, we can discover new writers and new solidarities, within and beyond « Europe ». Call it predicament, irony, contradiction, paradox: we want to use the ubiquity of English to animate the multilingual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ra \u0026 Olly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48926500520093,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/8783\/5037\/files\/euroreview11.png?v=1789775078","url":"https:\/\/postcardbookshop.com\/products\/the-european-review-of-books-issue-11","provider":"Postcard Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}