What is to be done with the Syrian gulag’s enormous archive? So ask @uungor.bsky.social and Ali Aljasem, scholars of modern Syria. That’s what generated this extraordinary essay from Issue Eight. How to abandon an archive – now in front of the paywall. europeanreviewofbooks.com/how-to-aband...

When we pick up a new issue at the printer’s, we often bring the ERB’s resident toddler. Still a helpless baby-in-a-box for Issue One, for our latest – Issue Eight – the preschooler could be convinced to climb a forklift. Issue Eight, everyone: europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue...

Kapka Kassobova walked across one of Europe’s last wildernesses, formed by the Pirin highlands, along wild men – guardians of what remains of the 400.000 wild horses that were once living there. Read Of wild men and horses in our Library: europeanreviewofbooks.com/of-wild-men-...

The Schengen Agreement promised a Europe without borders. It delivered something messier. In the first peek of Issue Eight, founding editor George Blaustein reviews the story of Schengen. How to make sense of a pseudo-borderless realm? Read Double negative here: bit.ly/double-negat...

What is, or was, Schengen? The Schengen Agreement, the Schengen Area, its politics, its metaphors, its contradictions. Here’s my review of Isaac Stanley-Becker’s «Europe without Borders: A History» (an early glimpse of the next @europeanreview.bsky.social): europeanreviewofbooks.com/double-negat...

May we present: ERB Issue Seven, in a shade of brown usually found only in the richest, milkiest of Belgian chocolate pralines. Another pralineal parallel: the real treat is inside. Subscribe today and receive 30% off: europeanreviewofbooks.com/product/subs...