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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