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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The Influencers • A dual biography from Charlotte Gray

To a Moose Dying on the Highway

Ken and Company • Fast times at Etobicoke Collegiate

Water Worlds • Getting our feet wet

Boiling Point • Of treaty rights and fisheries

A Piggy Bank Puzzle • Can redistributing dollars work?

Rereading King Lear in My Seventies

The Bélangers • An oral history of a Montreal gang

Grey Matter • How do you do, fellow kids?

Past Imperfect • J. L. Granatstein’s prescient warning

To Bespeak a Monument • Our relations and commemorations

She Dared to Succeed • A Biography of the Honourable Marie-P. Charette-Poulin

What I Wish I Had Told My Children • Michel Bastarache and Antoine Trépanier, translated by Julie da Silva

Doomed Passage • New takes on a lost explorer

Black Boys of Summer • On the field and in the history books

Between Texts • Notes on literary translation

Picture Book • Glimpses of the Black Star Collection

Freedom in Verse • Why I took up poetry

Sibling Rivalry • The latest from Michael Crummey

Le rappel des oiseaux

A Zigzagging Quest • Jamieson Findlay’s poignant page-turner

Where There’s Smoke • A fiery debut by Tomas Hachard

An East End Story • Elizabeth Ruth’s new novel

Her Mountie and Her Keyboard • In Alberta with Marina Endicott

A Bermuda Short