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A lawn picnic
An exile reflects on aging neighbors, a distant mother, illness, and the quiet erosion of time in a neglected townhouse complex.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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M.E. A.M.
Chapter 1. About Waking M.E. descriptors; dessicated, drained, deleted, detritus, debt. The fan is on and the window is wide and the night heat turns into morning chills. The sweat…
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Autofiction
A piercing reckoning with belief, identity, and complicity, where fiction offers the only sanctuary from the brutal truths of our nonfiction lives. “Fiction is the improbable space… where a person…
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The Possession
A searing philosophical meditation on spiritual possession, colonialism, and the reclaiming of indigenous identity through literary and ecological symbolism. “The native who constitutes the majority class is possessed by a…
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TBR Blank is here with a lucky 13
A bold new anthology from The Brussels Review, TBR Blanc offers fiction unbound by theme—where language becomes canvas and constraint becomes catalyst. “TBR Blanc is not emptiness but canvas: an…
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On Lucian Freud and the Violence in Looking
A meditation on Lucian Freud’s portraits, mortality, and the violence of looking, from familial intimacy to the abyss of horror. “To paint in the way Freud does, always from life,…
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Could we find another way?
“I had a dad with a stout body and glasses and prominent calf muscles and skin that reddened easily and fingers strong from a life of piano and wavy hair…
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When Heimat Disappears
A haunting reflection on memory, exile, and the impermanence of home in postwar Poland, as one man revisits the land he was forced to leave. “Where is my home?” Horst…
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Homecomings
A deeply personal, transcontinental memoir exploring exile, belonging, and the mystical echoes of heritage through a lifetime of wanderings.
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The Bet
A daughter’s harrowing search for truth, love, and her father, forged in trauma and betrayed by a mother’s myth.
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Going to the Cairn
“Motorcycle riding does this to a person… you decompress and expand out of the tight, compact person society has made you. It is a freedom seldom felt.”