The Brussels Review: Winter 2025

The Brussels Review: Winter 2025, conceived in the classical sense; reflective rather than reactive, inward-looking without being insular. 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, or deliberately resisted. The contributions are united not by theme alone, but by a shared attentiveness to consequence—emotional, ethical, historical, and aesthetic. What emerges is an issue concerned less with proclamation than with reckoning. It gestures toward a broader turning point we are witnessing across society: a withdrawal from constant reaction and a renewed, if uneasy, return to inward examination.