The 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. In 2021, we launched a crowdfunding campaign, to raise funds for early contributors, along with a digital opuscule of early essays, stories, and explorations.

Issue Four of the ERB is blue – sky blue – and within its covers are some first-rate forays and unlikely excavations.

Ali Smith on Virginia Woolf. George Blaustein on Schwarzeneggerology. The most important unreviewed books of our times (all four volumes of Xi Jinping's The Governance of China), reviewed. You also won't want to miss Issue Four's inquiries into peripheral Europe, Paleolithic art, ancient mining practices and medieval darlings. Nor its stories about Jim Jarmusch, a Polish graveyard, a Greek island, Italian post-pandemic life and Ukrainian longing. Plus: some truly bad writing advice.
All with the ERB’s remarkable print design: turn the pages to read, but cut the pages for a second layer of depth and digression.

 Cornwall, United Kingdom; 200 x 270mm; 192 pages