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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Beyond the City Limits • Diversity and rural Canada

This Has Nothing to Do with Birds

A Portrait of Grief • Charles Foran turns to memoir

Sicklebill Abandons

Well Said • Storytelling for our times

When the Results Arrived • Tracing an unexpected lineage

Alberta and Me • From a land of oil, true enough

Three’s Company • The lives they lived

Galvanized • Tales of a woman welder

Wasp Summer

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A Formidable Presence • Lise Bissonnette on the record

Reflections on This Country • Whit Fraser looks back

Preserving What Works • Of civilizations past and present

Campfire Confessional • Crushes, counsellors, and s’more

At a Snail’s Pace • My summer with James Joyce

Guinea Pigs • A rumination

Solar System Gets Its Ducks in a Row

Into Focus • Daniel Gawthrop’s Burmese adventure

Rising from the Flames • Across four generations with Janika Oza

Complicity and Innocence • The latest from Antanas Sileika

Disaggregated Material • Thomas Wharton’s marvellous new novel

In the Clouds • Marta Balcewicz looks up

Escape Planning • Joseph Kakwinokanasum’s small northern town

Spiritual Connections • A story collection from Michelle Syba

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