
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.

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.

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

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.