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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So to Speak • Canadian free expression is not American free speech

Loose Threads • The lesser-known critics of multiculturalism

All the Right Notes • Three musical titles keep time

Heretical or Heroic? • A European perspective on Louis Riel

Meditation on Northwestern Ontario

The Man, the Myth, the T-shirts • In the shadow of Louis Riel

Little Orphan Áine • A story we like to tell ourselves

Walkie Talkie • One wayfarer’s history of Vancouver

Of Pigs and Potions • The enduring delights of children’s books

The Grey Plateau • When the world stopped five years ago

Upstream Battle • Lessons on environmental stewardship

A Life in Print • George Galt on and off the page

Namesake • What I didn’t know I knew about Alice Munro

New Year’s Eve on the Swamp

Ode to Nickel City Women

A Fractured Future • Saad T. Farooqi’s debut novel

Costs of Living • Unique spins on bad bargains

A Thirst for Destruction • Sébastien Dulude’s mine craft

True Depths • A haunting tragedy on the road north

Winnipeg What It Used to Be

The Little Things • David O’Meara turns to prose

Saddle Up • Richard Kelly Kemick’s eclectic collection

Gritty Corners • Valérie Bah documents the margins

Confessions of a Bookseller