Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
Author: Dritan Kiçi
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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 system quietly stops rewarding creation and starts rewarding compliance.”
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The Brussels Review Is Not a Dating App
The Brussels Review defends its editorial stance: literature before identity, art before personal labels, and words before hashtags. “The rule is simple: if something about you is relevant to the work, it goes in. If not, it doesn’t… That is where a writer speaks: through language, not labelling.”
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The Brussels Review – Autumn 2025
This post may seem like a ritual every 3 months, but that impression is only surface deep. The art featured in this new issue is anything but ritualistic. We don’t claim the high moral ground or promise “amazing” literature; instead, we simply bring what has impressed us. So, it is pointless for me to linger…
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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 open field where language becomes color and constraint becomes catalyst.”
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The Paintings of Ximena Maldonado Sánchez. Hot!
The desert in Ximena Maldonado Sánchez’s paintings is not a place but a pulsing, radioactive body remembering heat, exile, and hallucination.
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Notes From the Isle Seat
A raw meditation on grief, voice, and the brutal clarity that follows loss—urging writers to abandon polish and write with unflinching truth.