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Blue Durango
A retired DEA agent smuggles Chinese migrants across the Mexico–U.S. border, evading cartels and corruption in a perilous bid for freedom and asylum.
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What Old Medicine Can Teach Us About Love | Corey Mertes
A young couple’s love unfolds across time in seven lyrical vignettes exploring memory, healing, and the emotional logic of old-world medicine.
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Best Laid Plans
Dickran risks everything to build a secret memorial in the Syrian desert, honoring the Armenian genocide amid a nation torn by civil war. “If these sands could talk – of…
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Why Belgium Subsidizes Languages Instead of Writers
Belgium funds languages, not writers—protecting symbols over people in a multilingual society where English quietly leads among the young. “When subsidies are attached to language rather than to writers, the…
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Lydia Renfro | TBR Winter 2025
Fiction editor Filippo Beltrami speaks with Lydia Renfro on place, Turkey, food, language, and cultural displacement behind her story “Greetings From.” “Story moves us past superficial differences and shows how…
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Jon Filipek | TBR Winter 2025
Jon Filipek he discusses Here We Go Again, his flash fiction piece in the Winter 2025 issue of The Brussels Review, reflecting on its origins, the constraints of short form,…
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Burcu Seyben | TBR Winter 2025
Seyben reflects on memory, displacement, and motherhood, drawing connections between her teenage years in Türkiye, her family’s forced relocations, and her present life in the United States. The conversation explores…
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Laurence Klavan | TBR Winter 2025
Fiction editor Femke van Son speaks with writer Laurence Klavan about his short story The Sleepwalker, published in the Winter 2025 issue of The Brussels Review.
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TBR Winter 2025 | Return to inward examination
Across nonfiction, poetry, fiction, and visual art, the issue examines how individuals are shaped by inheritance, memory, power, and silence; and how meaning is constructed when continuity is broken, distorted,…
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Lia Tjokro | TBR Winter 2025
Femke Van Son speaks with writer Lia Tjokro about her short story The Caretaker of Tears, featured in the upcoming Winter 2025 issue of The Brussels Review.
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What Silence Is
Three poems explore memory, silence, and wild landscapes—where rivers, snowfields, and swallows shape our inner and outer worlds. “Sounds evaporate into quiet / the vibrations braiding / into the smoothed…