The Brussels Review: Autumn 2026

Description

Nineteen stories, eight poets, three essays, and a photo essay that refuses to stay in its own section.

This issue’s featured artist is Najib Joe Hakim, the Palestinian American photographer whose Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay pairs portraits with the oral histories of Palestinians living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Twenty-four of those portraits are scattered through this issue rather than gathered in one place. They will interrupt the flow. They will stand between poems. That is the intention. Each face carries a code; the sitter’s own voice waits behind it.

Fiction

Madeleine Foster, 2000 Light Years From Home · Jacinta Cogan, Imperial Blue · Craig Stockwell, Righteousness · Ema Dumitru, Clean like forgetting · Charlie Freelander, Mainland · Soline Lippe de Thoisy, Olfactory intrusion · Monika Andrulyte, Cesarean section · Julia Breitkreutz, Witness · Daryna Riznyk, Bakhmut · Chad Poovey, A Simple Story about Pigs · Tomasz Laczny, The Prince Bites · Patrick Kruth, Till Death Calls You Away · Yvonne Conza, Blue Lady · Robert Dall, The Murray Slaughter Experience · Keith M. Hinrichs, Currency · Juan Parra, Salt and Vinegar · Jake Shore, Immersive Theatre · Joanne Soper-Cook, Herr Meisner’s God · David W. Sprecher, Reunion on Sage Street

Poetry

Thomas Heise · Daniel Rye · Laura Michiels · Cait McCann · Susan Kolon · Genevieve Chornenki · Steve Pollack · Sajidah Mustafa AlSaihati

Nonfiction

Chris Arthur, You’re not really going to call it ‘The Art of the Essayist,’ are you? · Michael Hardin, Tools · Baharan Eghbalzadeh, A note to self: on love and other apps

The Brussels Review publishes new fiction, poetry and nonfiction from writers working in and beyond Europe, alongside the work of a featured artist in every issue. It is edited by Dritan Kiçi with Femke van Son, Filippo Beltrami and Sofia Topi, and published by ACC Switzerland.

328 pages. Print ISSN 3041-4423.

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