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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Beyond the City Limits • Diversity and rural Canada
This Has Nothing to Do with Birds
A Portrait of Grief • Charles Foran turns to memoir
Sicklebill Abandons
Well Said • Storytelling for our times
When the Results Arrived • Tracing an unexpected lineage
Alberta and Me • From a land of oil, true enough
Three’s Company • The lives they lived
Galvanized • Tales of a woman welder
Wasp Summer
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A Formidable Presence • Lise Bissonnette on the record
Reflections on This Country • Whit Fraser looks back
Preserving What Works • Of civilizations past and present
Campfire Confessional • Crushes, counsellors, and s’more
At a Snail’s Pace • My summer with James Joyce
Guinea Pigs • A rumination
Solar System Gets Its Ducks in a Row
Into Focus • Daniel Gawthrop’s Burmese adventure
Rising from the Flames • Across four generations with Janika Oza
Complicity and Innocence • The latest from Antanas Sileika
Disaggregated Material • Thomas Wharton’s marvellous new novel
In the Clouds • Marta Balcewicz looks up
Escape Planning • Joseph Kakwinokanasum’s small northern town
Spiritual Connections • A story collection from Michelle Syba
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