Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Lydia Renfro | TBR Winter 2025
Fiction editor Filippo Beltrami speaks with Lydia Renfro on place, Turkey, food, language, and cultural displacement behind her story “Greetings From.” “Story moves us past superficial differences and shows how…
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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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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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Memories
Red shoes, moonlight, and memories — three poems reflect on aging, loss, and the quiet persistence of domestic and emotional life.
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Poppies
A parent mourns his child’s descent into addiction and unreachable dreams beyond a parent’s grasp.
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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…