21/07/2026
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Well, this is one for the books!
We’ve been named as one of six revolutionary bookshops in the world by Vogue Italia! Is this real or are we suffering a sunstroke? Other shops include Livreria Lello in Porto, where Dua Lippa just opened The Manifesto Library.
From the article:
“Brussels and the Power of Translation
There is another form of cultural resistance, often less visible but equally fundamental: translation. The Passa Porta bookstore, in the heart of Brussels, has built its identity around this idea. More than just a bookstore, it is an international center dedicated to literature and the encounter between different languages, cultures, and imaginations. In a city that symbolically represents contemporary Europe, Passa Porta celebrates the value of cultural contamination. Books cross geographical and linguistic borders, generating new meanings each time they are translated, read, or reinterpreted. The choice to give centrality to international literatures seems particularly significant in a context marked by rising nationalism and new forms of closed identities. Translation thus becomes much more than a linguistic exercise. It is an act of cultural mediation. A gesture that allows ideas to travel and differences to dialogue. Here too, the library emerges as a space of resistance. Not against something, but in favor of complexity.”
A huge thanks to Vogue Italia, journalist Sennait Ghebreab and all you revolutionary readers!
