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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Read All Over • Report on a news business

The Madding Crowd • Interviews with Canada’s far right

City Limits • Cultivating true community in Toronto

Necessity’s Child • When invention is not enough

Float a Loan • On balance sheets and bayonets

How the West Was One • Tim Cook’s story of Allied cooperation

A Brief History of Lunenburg County

Risky Business • A series of unfortunate events

Bored of the Rings • To have, to hold, and to head out

View Finder • A filmmaker’s kaleidoscopic memoir

Remembrances • Local history in British Columbia

To Save a Planet • Between despair and disaster

Cold Device

Clear the Air • Debating the carbon tax

Familiar Faces • Looks, liftoffs, and legacies

A Minister from Manitoba • Lloyd Axworthy looks back

The Waste Land • A garbageman talks trash

Without the Utmost Pertinacity • A case for uncertain reading

Ballad of the One-Year Bride

Different Strokes • Selections from Mavis Gallant and Carol Shields

Sisyphus Goes Skiing

Wise Guy • Insights of a celebrated novelist

Turn of the Century • Into the woods with Anik See

Shroom, Shroom • Jean Marc Ah‑Sen’s literary romp

Wheels of Time • Parenthood and grief two ways

A Storied Legacy • The Journey Prize at thirty-five

That Enduring Force