Literary Review of Canada

Canada's leading magazine of ideas. The LRC features thought-provoking book reviews, essays, and poetry: contributors include many of the country's most celebrated writers, from Sharon Butala to Erna Paris, from Peter C. Newman to Rawi Hage. An award-winning look at contemporary culture, politics, literature and science.

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Imaginary Futures

Literary Review of Canada

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Chancing to Rise • Our evolving relationship with China

Shut Your Eyes and See • A nation’s mythologies

Hollowed Halls • What ails the study of foreign policy?

With Letters of Commission • Reconsidering the state of the federation

Clearing Up the Question of Why It Takes Me So Long to Get Ready in the Morning

The Fifth • From printer’s devil to prime minister

Books that Englishten and Inspire

Notes to Self • The art of personal narration

Bukowski

First Lady • The incomparable Flora MacDonald

Now

His Superlatives • Tomson Highway’s joy

The Longest Nights • When the temperatures dipped in Montreal

On the Silver Trail • A small town’s outsize influence

After the Fall • Alliance warfare is no easy thing

Tug of War • An army created out of nothing

Plane and Simple • A new pilot project

Death of an Author • The weirdest man I never met

The Slow Reveal

Bring Us a Dream • Kim Fu’s debut collection

Behind the Second Story • A sequel to a Canadian classic

Back to School • A translation of Naomi Fontaine

Variations