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The Non-Centrality of the Character
An essay on why vivid prose centers action rather than characters, showing how pronouns can conceal weak sentences and stall narrative momentum.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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The Religion of Trees
A mythic tale of ancestral magic, colonial prophecy, and spiritual healing in the forests of precolonial Gabon.
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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…
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Donald and His Dreamcoat
A British diplomat buys a strange cloak in 1960s Morocco—and undergoes a haunting transformation in the desert that changes everything.
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A Lot in a Little
A Dutch engineer reflects on power, complicity, and reputation in 1950s America during the rise of the interstate system and the corporate-state machine.
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The Usurpation of Picu Monde
A six-year-old boy discovers the word “usurp” and proceeds to overthrow the government of his hometown in a whimsically absurd political fairy tale. “‘Usurp — to take power wrongfully or…
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Pozvonochnik
In post-Soviet Siberia, two childhood friends take over a heroin ring, but betrayal, addiction, and vengeance unravel everything they’ve built.
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Flamingo Lily and The Bag of Popcorn
Two poems meditate on grief, memory, and the strange, tender relics we keep—echoes of those we loved or never knew. “what if this / is all that remains / of…