Anger the controversial plan coincides with anime flag movement, seen as a critique on the decline of democratic freedoms under President Prabowo. Indonesia has delayed plans to publish a set of controversial history books amid backlash from historians and activists who have accused the project … [Read more...]
Lia Tjokro | TBR Winter 2025
December 28, 2025 by
In this episode of Call to the Editor, fiction editor Femke Van Son speaks with writer Lia Tjokro about her short story The Caretaker of Tears, featured in the upcoming Winter 2025 issue of The Brussels Review. Tjokro discusses her journey from cognitive neuroscience to literary fiction, and the … [Read more...]
Breakfast Without Mama
December 28, 2025 by
He hated morning, he wished the night could stay longer and the sun never rose again. At night he could hide under the blanket, pulled it all the way to cover his head, folded his legs in, clasped his hands, and just let the quiet darkness swallow him, and the bonus was: If he was really quiet … [Read more...]
Inaugural winners announced for PEN Presents x International Booker Prize
December 28, 2025 by
English PEN and the Booker Prize Foundation are delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural round of PEN Presents x International Booker Prize – an edition of the English PEN award for sample translations, launched in partnership with the Booker Prize Foundation to support translators from … [Read more...]
A House That Waited
December 26, 2025 by
I didn’t know how to begin this story, as I had suffered a severe head trauma and was still struggling to walk and to remember how I got here. Chronology felt like a luxury. All I recalled was crawling out of that crashed black sedan into this idyllic countryside, where so far, the only living … [Read more...]
