The Brooklyn Quarterly

The Brooklyn Quarterly TBQ is a digital magazine of literature and public ideas — featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays covering politics and culture.

A new list from Susan Harlan is the latest on our blog:
09/11/2018

A new list from Susan Harlan is the latest on our blog:

A seasonal list.

In which Rob Goodman brilliantly analyzes Roger Goodell's persona...definitely worth a re-read today.
05/23/2018

In which Rob Goodman brilliantly analyzes Roger Goodell's persona...definitely worth a re-read today.

Roger Goodell faces the very real prospect of being forced to resign, something which stands in stark contrast to his robotic, soundbite-driven persona

How did you experience the solar eclipse? Susan Harlan's newest on the TBQ blog.
08/23/2017

How did you experience the solar eclipse? Susan Harlan's newest on the TBQ blog.

An eclipse list

When things don’t make senseThe company of others like youMight be enough to keep goingIt might—
03/28/2017

When things don’t make sense
The company of others like you
Might be enough to keep going
It might—

Original poetry by Christine No

"Minus 16 is a marker for me, with a life that stretches beyond the theater, before and beyond the time of any given per...
03/28/2017

"Minus 16 is a marker for me, with a life that stretches beyond the theater, before and beyond the time of any given performance. Art can alter lives, and when art does—I believe that those moments, and those works of art, ought to be attended to."

During intermission, lounge music is playing in the theater, the curtains are open. People mumble. A man in a suit stands on the very front lip of the stage. Or is it a dancer? (Is a dancer—then—not human?) He is moving, a weird and quirky little shuffle. He full-body fidgets for eight, maybe ten mi...

"I remember the moment that marked the beginning of my journey with trauma. When I was eight years old, I came across th...
03/28/2017

"I remember the moment that marked the beginning of my journey with trauma. When I was eight years old, I came across the cover of a magazine lying on the kitchen table. An African-American family had been shot to death and their bodies were sprawled across the front page. The next day, I stood in the stairwell of my daycare center waiting for my parents to pick me up. My mind was fixed on that image. I was petrified someone was going to shoot me too. Not long after, I developed a fear of the dark. Stuck to a belief that someone could hide in the darkness and hurt me."

Angela Wright explores the genetic effects of trauma

"A childhood friend becomea browsing animal stood nearby.The shrubs at his heightwere bare, and from one bushI pulled ro...
03/28/2017

"A childhood friend become
a browsing animal stood nearby.
The shrubs at his height
were bare, and from one bush
I pulled round-leaved twigs, from another,
small tubers on a branch."

Original poetry by JD Smith

"By reintroducing the social dimension at the heart of Buddhism, we come to realize that mindfulness is not about simply...
03/28/2017

"By reintroducing the social dimension at the heart of Buddhism, we come to realize that mindfulness is not about simply passively being present, but about making active choices."

The radical possibilities of mindfulness

“It was dumbfounding to see myself and my most difficult experiences through the eyes of someone else.” Daniel Regan Pho...
03/27/2017

“It was dumbfounding to see myself and my most difficult experiences through the eyes of someone else.” Daniel Regan Photography speaks to Genevieve Walker about the difficulty of documenting the inner life.

Photographer Daniel Regan used health care professionals’ analyses of his mental health to create a series of portraits that described the difficulty of interpreting an individual’s experience of life

lightning’s thrill crack and flashthe humid build upbreaking wetthe musical pound on tin rooffirst dropsspread fat and w...
03/24/2017

lightning’s thrill crack and flash
the humid build up
breaking wet
the musical pound on tin roof
first drops
spread fat and warm

- Cassandra Dallett, issue 8

Original poetry by Cassandra Dallett

“What war stories taught me I now teach you” Original poetry by Tongo Eisen-Martin in our latest issue.
03/23/2017

“What war stories taught me I now teach you” Original poetry by Tongo Eisen-Martin in our latest issue.

"may we all refuse to die at the same time" and "Channels to fall asleep to"

“It is in 'Valley, Uncanny' that we first encounter Shin’s methodical approach to understanding sorrow of the most primo...
03/23/2017

“It is in 'Valley, Uncanny' that we first encounter Shin’s methodical approach to understanding sorrow of the most primordial kind. Here, as in the rest of the book, the reader is asked to consider what is known to us, in relation to the vastness of what is unknown or strange.” Erin Sharkey reviews Sun Yung Shin's Unbearable Splendor in Issue 8.

A Review of Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin

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