THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF BOOKS (May 1, 2025): The latest issue features …Around the world in strawberry red. Schengen’s pseudo-borderless « Europe ». A day in Minsk & an eternity at the border. A trip through Syria’s now-uninhabited terror apparatus (archivists needed). Cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire, agricultural-novelists in Switzerland & France, tree-huggers in The Hague…

Double negative

Our first piece from Issue Eight, out from behind the paywall! « It’s best to go into Schengen’s history unshocked by contradiction. by George Blaustein

The shortest, longest bus trip

Travelogue of a day in Minsk & an eternity at the EU border. Paula Domingo Pasarin

On learning to hate chickens

Two novelists (one Swiss, one Spanish) sign up for agricultural jobs. Tania Roettger

Bethlehem, Jericho & a view of Jerusalem

A Palestinian writer mentally retreats to three unreadable cities. by Karim Kattan