The Brussels Review

A conversation with Philip Miller—poet, composer, and music professor at Karlstad University—featured in the first edition of #TBRBlue. #TBR #CallToTheEditor #TheBrusselsReview open.spotify.com/episode/6WFB1a…

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Revisiting Jennifer’s Body (2009) through a queer, feminine gaze, revealing its recession‑era aesthetic, and sapphic intensity articulate agency and desire often overlooked by mainstream critics. #TBR #FilmCriticism #QueerCinema #GothicHorror thebrusselsreview.com/kirsty-crawfor…

Tommy Vollman distills the vacancy of loss through lucid, understated prose, as a brother traverses memory’s edge and the stark rituals of grief. #TBR #fiction #grief #family #Christmas thebrusselsreview.com/tommy-vollman/…

The Summer edition of The Brussels Review presents a convergence of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Across pieces that dwell in hesitation, rupture, and existential drift, this issue invites readers to explore. #TBR #poetry #fiction #essays thebrusselsreview.com/admin/the-summ…

Set in Northern Thailand, this immersive narrative explores a young traveler’s descent into Muay Thai training, where through violence and the discipline of repetition, a bruised body and restless mind find unexpected clarity. #TBR #Thailand #MuayThai thebrusselsreview.com/micaela-edelso…

The new podcast from TBR, "Call to the Editor". Writers and readers are all welcomed to call in. #calltotheeditor #TBRPodcast #ximena open.spotify.com/episode/5QO6Np…

Two poems trace the quiet collision of inner and outer worlds: one through the sensory hush of a child's late-summer retreat, the other through the philosophical pull of erasure and ancient language. #poetry #childhood #nature #memory #TBR thebrusselsreview.com/daniel-sofaer/…

Through a cascading series of lyrical inversions, Never too Late explores the mutable borders between sorrow and strength, fear and awakening, memory and rebirth. #TBR #poetry #resilience #spirituality #transformation thebrusselsreview.com/ramzi-albert-r…

#Ximena_Maldonado_Sánchez’s landscapes are not depictions but emanations—deserts that remember heat, speak in glare, and shimmer with chemical memory. Hallucinogenic and radioactive. #TBR #painting #contemporaryart #LatinAmericanart #landscape thebrusselsreview.com/dritan-kici/th…

In this sharp and uncanny parable of the afterlife, a man’s casual dismissal of medical advice turns metaphysical when he dies of a heart attack—and wakes to a cosmic guide cloaked in familiar forms. #fiction #magicalrealism #afterlife #workingclass #TBR thebrusselsreview.com/jonathan-d-sco…

A quiet witness, the speaker captures a world of both tenderness and brutality, all unfolding in parallel to an aching solitude. #TBR #poetry #urbanlife #existentialism #observation thebrusselsreview.com/ifunanya-georg…

TBR Dark, edited by Femke van Son, gathers literary fiction that veers into the uncanny and speculative. These stories explore fractured identity, mechanized memory, and psychological rupture. #TBR #literaryfiction #speculativefiction #TBRDark thebrusselsreview.com/admin/introduc…

#HopeJoseph writes against extinction—of butterflies, of soil, of fireflies, of youth itself. Rooted in the textures of #Ekiti, this lyrical essay gathers records of life before they fade. #TBR #essays #nostalgia #climatechange #Nigeria #Memory thebrusselsreview.com/hope-joseph/re…

Brutal, defiant, and intellectually exacting, Notes From the Isle Seat calls for writing that bleeds, offends, and illuminates. If it’s not dangerous, don’t bother. #TBR #essays #grief #writing #authenticity #literature thebrusselsreview.com/dritan-kici/no…

Ghayath Almadhoun’s I Have Brought You a Severed Hand is a searing poetic indictment of war, exile, and complicity. #TBR #poetry #translation #Syria #Europe thebrusselsreview.com/dritan-kici/gh…

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Atomic legacy meets personal reckoning in a collection that speaks through pain, memory, and the quiet defiance of survival. #TBR #poetry #war #Oppenheimer #redemption #motherhood Cover art by Mia Felić thebrusselsreview.com/colleen-s-harr…

Televised absurdity, Eurovision is revealed as both camp spectacle and geopolitical masquerade. From Australia's "migrating" to Europe to the politics of absence. Hills are... Was that a man? #TBR #essays #Eurovision #popculture #geopolitics #satire thebrusselsreview.com/dritan-kici/eu…