@georgeblaustein
Co-founder & co-editor, European Review of Books (https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/, @europeanreview.bsky.social) Americanist, University of Amsterdam (https://www.uva.nl/profiel/b/l/g.h.blaustein/g.h.blaustein.html)
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...
Courtesy of Kapka Kassabova
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:
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«Schengen’s proponents often spoke of it as a ‘laboratory’. … Should we picture politico-chemical engineers, with white coats under fluorescent lights? They measure beakers of combustible substances—supranationalism, sovereignty, economic efficiency, xenophobia—and try to find a stable emulsion.»
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.
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