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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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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…
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Needing to Believe (That Life was Worth Living)
A college friendship becomes a lifeline as memory, music, and misunderstanding collide, testing love, loyalty, and the fragile need to believe life is worth living. “He said he was going…
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Uncomfortable
A searing meditation on generational trauma, systemic violence, and the need to reject sanitized truths in favor of revolutionary clarity. “If man can understand the words of Kant and King,…
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Waiting for the Game
A comic confrontation outside a stadium escalates into absurdity, violence, and reluctant fraternity—all before kickoff. “What had I become? Here I was, so concerned with destroying this man’s existence that…
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Joan Didion’s Notes to John
Joan Didion’s Notes to John reveals unedited therapy letters, prompting questions about posthumous publication and the ethics of literary exposure. “I confess wishing many times I could get a glimpse…
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Chicken Ranch
An aging woman, her niece, and a mobile home park owner drift through memory, loss, and ownership on a slowly collapsing porch. “Things popped into Annie’s mind when they popped,…
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Whaleskin
A lyrical, personal essay exploring fatness, divorce, and movement through the metaphor of whales surviving a world that no longer welcomes them. “I want them to only dive through water…