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Brick

A Literary Journal

Publisher’s description: Called “one of the best, if not the best, journals of ideas published in the English-speaking world” by Russell Banks, Brick is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected literary journals, edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Esta Spalding, Michael Helm and Rebecca Silver Slayter. Since its inception in 1977, Brick has played a unique role, both in Canada and beyond, gathering a cross-section of national and international, known and new literary voices in a wide-ranging discussion of arts, culture, and literature.

As the late poet Robert Creeley said, “Brick is a reader’s and writer’s magazine, that rare ground of a common interest and exchange. It's a remarkable bastion against the blurs and distractions of the all-too-familiar alternatives. Here reading always wins.”

Recent issues:

Our Winter 2012 issue features stunning drawings and manuscript pages from the Derek Walcott archive, a special section dedicated to poet Robert Kroetsch, interviews with Valerie Martin and Tony Kushner, as well as the latest from Jonathan Lethem, John Ralston Saul, John Berger, Jeramy Dodds, Melora Wolff, David Thomson, Will Aitken, and Alayna Munce, poetry by Andrew Jamison, and a new science column by Lee Smolin.

Brick 87 features, among other delights: interviews with Edmund de Waal, Joseph Brodsky, James Salter, and Ken Babstock; poetry by Sharon Olds, Czesław Miłosz, and Robin Robertson; essays from Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Don Paterson, Zbigniew Herbert, Christine Pountney, and Jim Harrison; the products of Elizabeth Bishop’s first photo shoot, and a Latin ode to Canadian curler Kevin Martin.

Brick 86 features new fiction from Colm Tóibín, an interview with Seamus Heaney, essays from Margaret Atwood and Saskia Hamilton, uncensored Mark Twain, a lament for José Saramago by Dionne Brand, a time-bending postcard from John Berger, a look at the life and books of Arthur Koestler by film editor Walter Murch, drawings from the Coen brothers¹ film A Serious Man by Eric Karpeles and Mike Sell, a story by Adrienne Monnier about her lunch with Colette, as well as a chronicle of the unlikely friendship between G. Bernard Shaw and heavyweight champion Gene Tunney.