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Urban Enigmas of Patrick ten Brink
A surreal, poetic stroll through Brussels’ overlooked streets, where orphaned objects and street life are celebrated with wit and wonder. “These well-crafted poems do justice to the everyday, to the processes and people, the machines and routines that keep the city ticking over, with all its life organic, mechanic, human, artificial.”
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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Delusion and Desire
Three striking stories explore mental illness, teenage defiance, and spiritual resistance, where delusion, desire, and control collide in strange, vivid ways. “The earth is still round, but it’s been cut…
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Opposite House
In 1970s Antwerp, Ria fights to find her place—in architecture school, in a divided house, and in a world haunted by history and patriarchy.
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Pippa Darbyshire’s Love of Nature
An ode to the Baie de Somme’s tidal skies and Pippa Darbyshire’s meditative paintings—inviting pause, presence, and quiet awe.
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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.