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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Cruel Summer • An iconic town in the line of fire

On Familiar Spirits • A senator warns against another witch hunt

Agent Orange • Two takes on the state of democracy

Shout

Regulate and Chill • It’s full stream ahead for Bill C-11

Those Ancient Lands • Where and when did this conflict begin?

New in Translation • How the world turns the page

Of Humble Origins • The glitz and glam of a grassroots movement

Fortunes and Funnel Cakes • What Patty Conklin created

A Northern Light • The life and times of Martha Black

Nova Scotia Architecture

Food Fight • When a mogul rewrote his will

The Middle • Essays on fragmented identity

French Connections • One writer’s indulgent detour

Waxing Poetic • Charles Taylor searches for meaning

The City

Another Round • Michael Lista returns to poetry

For Art’s Sake • Heather O’Neill imagines a war-torn world

On the Hunt • Rod Moody-Corbett’s remarkable debut

The Young Man and the Spree • When Hemingway was dispatched to Kingston

Three’s a Crowd • Leanne Toshiko Simpson turns to fiction

Captured • John Delacourt’s latest political thriller

Ghost Bike

Paw Print • Tammy Armstrong blurs fact and fiction

The Portrait of a Reader