Literary Review of Canada

Published ten times a year, the Literary Review of Canada is the country’s foremost journal of ideas on politics, philosophy, science, history, culture, and literature. Each issue features smart, lively book reviews and topical long-form essays alongside original art and poetry.

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Grasping at Straws

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The Magpie & the Moon

Jaxon Whole • Donald B. Smith makes his case

Eggshell

Cries from the Deep • A tragedy along the Irish coast

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Food Court of Appeal • Talking shop in Edmonton

Labour Forced • Working away from home

Capital Ideas • Ottawa’s commemorative landscape

Plucked • The Breadbasket’s potash problem

Collected Thoughts • Three works of creative non-fiction

Mountain Do • Those who reach great heights

Guilt Trip • Misguided explorations of modern travel

Heart and Home • A pioneering surgeon’s journey

Time Stamps • It was the golden age of magazines

The Painter’s Papers • A prairie mystic in his own words

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Reel Talk • Lights, camera, Quebec!

For Your Death Day

Liner Notes • Inside Canada’s tortured poets department

Was Like Nightfall • Knockin’ on Homer’s door

What Happened? • Going beyond Colonel Mustard

N Is for No • Sheila Heti from A to Z

East Coast Fish Out of Water • Alex Pugsley goes from Halifax to Toronto

Bedtime Stories • Whose sex is it anyway?

Their Everyday Lives • Two novellas by Nora Gold

Gone Girl • Judith Pond’s debut novel

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