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Big Mouth
Alice enters a Nebraska fair’s marble-mouth contest and finds the courage to name what has been silently haunting her.
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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Jon Filipek | TBR Winter 2025
Jon Filipek he discusses Here We Go Again, his flash fiction piece in the Winter 2025 issue of The Brussels Review, reflecting on its origins, the constraints of short form,…
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Burcu Seyben | TBR Winter 2025
Seyben reflects on memory, displacement, and motherhood, drawing connections between her teenage years in Türkiye, her family’s forced relocations, and her present life in the United States. The conversation explores…
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Laurence Klavan | TBR Winter 2025
Fiction editor Femke van Son speaks with writer Laurence Klavan about his short story The Sleepwalker, published in the Winter 2025 issue of The Brussels Review.
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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,…
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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.
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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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Needing to Believe (That Life was Worth Living)
A college friendship becomes a lifeline as memory, music, and misunderstanding collide, testing love, loyalty, and the fragile need to believe life is worth living. “He said he was going…
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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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Waiting for the Game
A comic confrontation outside a stadium escalates into absurdity, violence, and reluctant fraternity—all before kickoff. “What had I become? Here I was, so concerned with destroying this man’s existence that…