The European Review of books is a publication of culture and ideas, in print and online, in English and in a writer's own tongue. One of our missions, if the word will be forgiven, is to thicken the « European » intellectual atmosphere. The Europe of our title is neither nostalgia nor telos; it is where we happen to live. (Not even we know the boundaries of European. Culture in Europe filters through national and metropolitan sieves; we want to write, and to edit, beyond the nation and the metropole, to cultivate more writers, more intelligent dissent, the good kind of disharmony, a lively cacophony. « Europe » deserves better critique.