The Brussels Review: Winter 2024
Summary
Cover: Ardit Boriçi, "She was like that, an apparent tranquility, and inside a disarming chaos.", soft pastel & carbon on paper, 40 × 25 cm
Nineteen stories. The fullest fiction list the review has run — opening with Subha Roychowdhury's farewell letter and closing with Maggie Nerz Iribarne's Stigmata. Seven poems sit at the centre, and two essays report from Hungary and from the bush.
Fiction
Subha Roychowdhury: Your existence and me
Madhumati Dutta: Brothers
Victor Oluwalana: Ebele
David Levine: Blood Brother Jack
Isabella Mori: Threading The Needle
J.R. Gerow: In the Garden
Jawahara K. Saidalluah: Wild Song of Grief
A.D. Capili: The Appointment
Zach Murphy: The River Is A Mirror · Orbits · Good Evening, My Friend
Lucie Bonvalet: Aurora's hair
Dave Hangman: My Husband Is an Emotion
Michael Lithgow: The Taxidermy Lesson
Mandy Ruthnum: The Snow Castle
Jim Wasserman: The lineman
John Carneson: The Bar, the Scar, and Bambi
David Labi: Lord of the Manor
Peter Newall: Landscape With Birds
Ken Reimer: Two Final Cups of Tea
Maggie Nerz Iribarne: Stigmata
Poetry
Gabriel Simone: gold leaves
Arthur Henry Ginsberg: The Bones are Singing
Stan Sanvel Rubin: War Requiem
Jean-Paul Thuot: A Substantive Change of Circumstance
Mohammad Mansournejad: It's obvious
Ace Boggess: Fire and Water
Martin Rieser: Flood
Nonfiction
Lindsay Nash: Nem! Is Not A Bad Word But Hungary Can Howl
Matthew Phillips: The Bush