Who decides what counts as normal?
Something always sits on the highest seat — a god, a king, a market, a score — and whatever sits there decides who gets judged. People put it there, and people can put something else there. That is the argument of Thrones of the Invisible.
THRINV publishes it in 33 languages: the book for adults, Learn for students, Wonder for children aged 6 to 11, and a monthly magazine that reads the news of your own country through it.
Free to read: the first two chapters or stories of each series and one magazine article a month. Everything else is sold per book or per monthly edition, at the price for your country — yours to keep, no subscription.
Thrones of the Invisible · E-book €15 · Magazine edition €8
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One question, at four levels
Written once and published in thirty-three languages, so a child in Ljubljana and an editor in Lisbon meet the same question.
Wonder
Ages 6 to 11
The feeling that there is more than they are being shown.
Learn
For students
The science of their own minds, beginning with the news that intelligence was never a fixed quantity.
Thrones of the Invisible
The argument in full
How power stopped wearing crowns, and so stopped being argued with.
Magazine
Every month
The news read past the frame it is reported in — what is presented as inevitable, who decided it, and what it serves — as a monthly magazine in your own language and country.
33languages
7books, in every language
98chapters, tales and stories
117magazine editions a month: 106 countries, some in more than one language
Magazine
Most reporting stops where its frame ends. These articles begin there.
Eight articles a month, published as a magazine in your own language and country.
About the magazine
Twice a week one story from the news is read again — not for what happened, which the news has already told you, but for what the telling takes for granted: which decision is being presented as a fact of life, who made it, and what it serves.
These are reported pieces, not opinion columns. Each one names the decision, the people who made it and the moment it could have gone otherwise, and every figure carries its source. A claim no source will carry is cut before the article is published.
An edition is built for one market rather than translated into it: the same argument, carried by the laws, figures and sources of your own country, in your own language.
At the start of each month those eight articles become one edition, one article for each theme the book traces — from measurement and school to work, money, technology, care, the law and nature. The month read in one sitting instead of a feed: online, as a PDF and as an EPUB.
One article a month is free to read in full.
8articles per edition
1article a month free for everyone
117local editions every month
€8per edition
About the author
Jan Verellen
Jan Verellen studies how people learn — and how they come to be measured. He spent nine years at KU Leuven in Belgium, graduating with two very different master’s degrees: one in Physical Education & Movement Sciences, the other in Business Engineering. Along the way, one question took hold of him: why is studying treated as something to be endured, rather than a craft a person can actually get good at?
Chasing that question, he taught himself to learn far more efficiently — cutting his own workload to a fraction of what the system assumes an “average” student needs, while still graduating and living well. Learning, it turned out, is not a gift some are issued at birth. It is attention, memory, method, and the quiet confidence that ability can be trained.
