The Brussels Review: Autumn 2026

Paperback: preorder before 15 October. eBook: available now. Featured artist: Najib Joe Hakim, cover: "Earrings" The eighth issue opens with Najib Joe Hakim's photo essay Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay — twenty-five portraits scattered deliberately through the issue, each face carrying a QR code that opens an oral history, with nothing printed alongside. Nineteen stories follow, from Daryna Riznyk's Bakhmut to Joanne Soper-Cook's Herr Meisner's God, eight poets, and three essays, including Chris Arthur on what an essay should be allowed to call itself. Featured Artist Najib Joe Hakim: Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay 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