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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With Such Precautions

Literary Review of Canada

Furthermore

Special Temporary Measures • An audience to this act

Toppling Statutes? • Thoughts on modern constitutions

The People’s Province • Saskatchewan knows what it wants

A Neglected Pledge • Moving beyond apologies

One Hundred Days • How to explain a genocide

Do You Remember the Day You Were Born?

An Ode to Family • Memories of a war-torn land

False Positives • Riding the first wave in Quebec

Upstaged • Prop and circumstance

My Country Describes Itself to Me

A Page from Her Book • Scenes from home and away

Elegy

The Western Terminus • In that place called Vancouver

Curtain Call • Along our treasured canal

Unquestionable • Margaret Atwood’s on fire

Leaving Them • The hardest thing I’ve ever done

Sea Glass

Project Management • Somewhere over the Mountain

The Well from Hell • It was a disaster

Finding Illich • David Cayley’s labour of love

A Father’s Son • In the wake of loss

In the Squalid Mile • The latest from Heather O’Neill

Thrill Seekers • Are you not entertained?

The First Draft • A novel by Sheila Heti

Tower Records

THE EPIC OF KING GESAR