Issue 7 has been spotted at Athenaeum Boekhandel in Amsterdam and is waiting for you in bookstores around the world! Filled to the brim with delights: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, reviews of novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, Yiddish gangster novels, anti-apartheid country music, hard-boiled Bulgarian horsemen, and much more—all in a bafflingly beautiful design.
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May we present: ERB Issue Seven! Now available online for digital subscribers, and in print on its way to print subscribers. The treats inside are plenty: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party’s favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, reviews of Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, Yiddish gangster novels, anti-apartheid country music, hard-boiled Bulgarian horsemen, and much, much more.
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PS: The tumbling figure on the cover—astronaut? Stunt performer? Biker? Harilaos Stecopolous’s review of Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake has the answers.
A sneak peek at Issue Seven. Inside: European news satire, the Chinese Communist Party's favorite sci-fi series, fiction by Alba de Céspedes and Sergei Lebedev, novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Rachel Kushner, and even anti-apartheid country music.
Stay tuned.
Issue Seven is now in the capable hands of our printer Wilco artbooks, and will roll off the presses mid-December!
Writer Théo Casciani dives into the chaos of the Pixel War on Reddit, an event where millions of users vie for control over a four-million-pixel canvas. Each round, players can place a pixel, collaborating or clashing to create or destroy images in a race against the clock. The final product? Either a monumental fresco or the remnants of digital warfare—a reminder that, in the end, it’s just a game.
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https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/pixel-war/
To review the AI Act is no simple task. Philippe Huneman invites us to think beyond the legal text — to consider what AI really is, how it challenges our ideas of consciousness and causality.
Huneman reflects on centuries-old philosophy from thinkers like Hobbes, Leibniz, and Hume, and how it applies to the new world of Large Language Models and AI profiling. As Hume once said, causation is the "cement of the universe"—but AI may be un-cementing it.
Read the full review here: https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/without-cause/
This week, we’re showcasing a review of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act by French philosopher Philippe Huneman.
The European Union’s AI Act — officially, the "Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence" — came into force last summer. But do you feel different? Is it working? Could we even tell if it was? Or are these the wrong questions altogether?
In Issue Six, Huneman offers a philosophical review of this landmark legislation, exploring its complexity and the deeper questions it raises.
Read the full review here: https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/without-cause/
Issue Six is here! A lilac cover binds together fiction by Adania Shibli, Théo Casciani & Agnes Lidbeck, a review of the EU’s new Artificial Intelligence Act, a lamentation of German carpet, a rummage through Jane Austen’s wardrobe, some probing questions about the past, present & future of photography, a wander around translations of The Waste Land and much more.
Dive into Issue Six here: https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/issues/issue-six/
What better essay to highlight in front of the paywall than our Issue Five review of a biography of a legendary San Remo hotel?
« perched above the azure waves of the Mediterranean amid the verdant, sun-kissed hills of the Ligurian riviera »
Find the article here: https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/last-resort/en
Patrick Doan is truly the ERB’s triple treat: designer of our print magazine, illustrator of all drawings therein and now also writer of an essay (and: a talented restorer of Seiko watches from the ’60s and ‘70s, but that’s beyond the ERB’s remit – for now).
This week in front of the paywall: Patrick’s beautiful Issue Five travelogue of a momentous family trip to Cambodia.
Find it here: https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/photographer-refugee-king/en
In the run-up to the European elections we have hefty discount for a limited time: a print+digital subscription for €115 €70 (that's 3 issues + unlimited digital access!) and a digital yearly subscription for only €50 €25.
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The day before the literary festival began, the « anarcho-capitalist paleolibertarian » Javier Milei won Argentina’s open primaries by surprise. By noon the following day, Monday 14 August, the Argentine peso lost 25 percent of its value. Something changed that Sunday, though nobody knew what, how much or for how long — least of all Milei, caught unawares by the results but ecstatically ready.
Read The anarcho-astrologer by Federico Perelmuter for free this weekend.
https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/the-anarcho-astrologer/en
