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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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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…
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Joan Didion’s Notes to John
Joan Didion’s Notes to John reveals unedited therapy letters, prompting questions about posthumous publication and the ethics of literary exposure. “I confess wishing many times I could get a glimpse…
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Chicken Ranch
An aging woman, her niece, and a mobile home park owner drift through memory, loss, and ownership on a slowly collapsing porch. “Things popped into Annie’s mind when they popped,…
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Whaleskin
A lyrical, personal essay exploring fatness, divorce, and movement through the metaphor of whales surviving a world that no longer welcomes them. “I want them to only dive through water…
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Heartwarming Stories – For tender souls
It is our hope that you read these stories not in haste, but in companionship; perhaps with a cup of tea at your side; in a sunlit corner; or in…