The Brussels Review: Autumn 2024
Summary
Cover: Paula Raiglot, "Reading women are dangerous", 2011, acrylic, 160 × 140 cm
The first issue, and the only one to carry an interview: Annelies Verbeke on a literary journey. Fourteen stories open with F. Kevin Murphy's The Carousel, Warsaw, May 1943, and nine poets follow, several with small sequences of their own.
Interview
Annelies Verbeke: A Literary Journey
Fiction
F. Kevin Murphy: The Carousel
Rebecca Klassen: All That Grows
Ciara Mandulee Mendis: The Secrets of Dead Leaves
Ornela Musabelliu: The Shoes
David Hutto: The Price of Angels
Robert Slentz-Kesler: Stay Calm, Stay Discreet
Huina Zheng: Bonds
Urmi Palchoudhury: The gulmohar tree
Jonathan Scott Davies: An apartment in Paris
Janet Goldberg: Much Happiness
Paul Lewellan: Almost Famous
Stephen O'Donnell: Sacred Sunday
Patrick ten Brink: My Special Condition
Nelly Shulman: The Badlands
Poetry
Frank William Finney: In Memory of Papa's Pond Robert René Galván: Venerable Tree · Coal Shack to Brooklyn
Banyan Elizabeth Gunn: Cartographer · Time-Lapse Photography · Tuesday
James B. Nicola: Diogenes · Mon Semblable, Ma Soeur
Eleni C. Traganas: Helianthus · Metamorphosis · Inheritance
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran: What the wind carries · If you want to find me, follow the scent of mandrake · Ode to peculiar beauty: On reading Clarice Lispector
Peter Graarup: Jesus · Plaster Saints Aki Dueñas: God and Other Excuses
Amy L. Bernstein: Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window