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  • TBR Winter 2025 | Return to inward examination

    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, or deliberately resisted.


  • Lia Tjokro | TBR Winter 2025

    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.


  • Heartwarming Stories – For tender souls

    Heartwarming Stories – For tender souls

    It is our hope that you read these stories not in haste, but in companionship; perhaps with a cup of tea at your side; in a sunlit corner; or in the hour when the day first yields to evening. Let them speak and let them warm the room. For the promise of this book is…


  • Introducing TBR Rouge

    Introducing TBR Rouge

    Rouge is an act of exposure. Like the color it’s named for, this collection reveals rather than conceals—turning its light on what is usually left unsaid: the quiet pulse of desire, the guilt folded into tenderness, and the moments when longing rewrites a life. Built around one idea—that passion is not a genre but a…


  • The Summer of TBR is Here

    The Summer of TBR is Here

    The Summer 2025 issue of The Brussels Review offers a captivating blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, showcasing diverse voices and narratives.


  • Introducing TBR Dark

    Introducing TBR Dark

    What binds these stories together is not genre, but mood: an atmosphere of hesitation, rupture, and epistemological drift… They ask what remains of the human when its constructs—identity, memory, even time—become unstable.