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TBR Spring 26: Grief. Reminiscence. Trauma. Watermelons.
Read the latest issue with authors from around the world.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Consecration
A lyrical journey through grief, memory, and mysticism, where loss seeks form, and fleeting beauty becomes a sacrament of the soul. “It was just a lamp, a tree in rainfall,…
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European vs American Writing: Proximity and Distance
European literature is born from enforced proximity. From the impossibility of sealing oneself off completely. From the daily friction of languages, classes, resentments, affections, histories, all occupying the same physical…
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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…