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 Justice She Sought • Half-told tales of the Second World War

Hunger

Clock Watching • The nuclear threat lingers still

Just Hand It Over? • The shifting foundations of charitable giving

Private Eyes • Who is watching the watchmen?

Emission Impossible • On policies and persuasion

The Book of Desire

Schools of Thought • Canadian classrooms at cross-purposes

A Developing Situation • Scenes of the first five waves

The Best Policy • Among the Donner Prize nominees

Woke This Morning • Plumbing the depths of a word

Pages of Sleep

Tangled Influences • Jen Sookfong Lee can’t quit pop culture

Dancing through the Pain • Bereavement, vigilance, and hope

Le critique • Before the referendum came the reviews

Ceiling Fan • How the Sistine Chapel won her over

Mover and Shaker • The Charles Darwin of geology

A Diasporic Voice • Lorna Goodison takes on the essay

Spring of ’78 • A hippie’s meandering pilgrimage

Still Blooming Every Summer • Fifteen love stories by Margaret Atwood

Along the Underground Railroad • An astonishing debut by Kai Thomas

Leaps of Faith • Stories by Harold Macy

Moral Whirligig • A David Adams Richards mosaic

Byte-Sized Confessional • Monica Heisey’s trending debut

A Sharp Sweetness • Elizabeth Hay revisits a fictional world

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