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Europe is often defined by its laws, treaties, and institutions. But when crises hit, those legal frameworks rarely inspire unity or belonging. What endures instead is language — the dialects, literatures, and voices that carry memory across borders. Europe’s deepest identity was never written into law. It was spoken, argued over, and passed down long…
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Europe is often explained through treaties, summits, and policy language—but those tools rarely capture how Europe actually feels. While political theory tries to impose order, novels reveal the continent’s contradictions, moral anxieties, and lived realities. From Dostoevsky to Kundera, European fiction exposes the inner tensions that institutions can manage but never fully explain.
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The Towns That Remember: Why Europe’s Future Will Be Written Far From Its Capitals By Jackson Mitchell— Opinion For decades, we were taught that Europe’s identity—its politics, its culture, its intellectual life—flowed downward from its capitals. Paris sets the tone, Berlin charts the course, Brussels writes the rules. If you really want to understand where
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The literary review that is quietly moving across Europe: why readers and students are moving back to the long, complex conversations only a book can hold, in the digital age.
The Aurora Review 