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Brick

A Literary Journal

About Brick: International perspective. Focuses on the literary non-fiction essay, and also publishes interviews, memoir, letters, poetry, fiction, and other strange and wonderful literary matter.

Publisher’s description: Brick is an international literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, and edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Michael Helm, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Esta Spalding. Published twice a year, the magazine is a beautifully produced keepsake filled with essays, interviews, memoirs, travelogues, belles lettres, and casual, idiosyncratic ephemera that can only be described as “Bricky.” In each issue, the world’s best-loved writers have wide, lively, personal discussions about writing, reading, film, art, culture, science, sports, food—literally anything that strikes their fancy or haunts their imagination.

Recent issues have featured drawings and manuscript pages from the Derek Walcott archive; interviews with Wim Wenders, Anne Carson, and Katherine Boo; new work from Jonathan Lethem, John Ralston Saul, John Berger, Amitava Kumar, Teju Cole, Don Paterson, and Sharon Olds; newly translated work by Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert; and as always, Jim Harrison’s column on food and life.

“The wait time between issues is agonizing.” — Utne Reader

“The best literary publication in North America.” — Annie Proulx

Recent issues:

In Brick 91, forty-four contributors—John Irving, Sheila Heti, Francine Prose, Colum McCann, Ayana Mathis, and Lawrence Hill, to name a few—write about their favourite endings. The Summer 2013 issue also offers in-depth reviews by Di Brandt and Tom Mayer, interviews with Tsitsi Dangarembga, Julian Barnes, and Mario Vargas Llosa, essays by Linda Spalding, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, and Kilby Smith-McGregor, poetry by Ben Lerner, John Freeman, and Jim Harrison, and more.

Brick 90 is chock-full of material too great to miss, including interviews with British novelist Edward St. Aubyn and poet Alice Oswald, memoir by Christine Pountney and Valeria Luiselli, an intimate look at the work of Canadian artist David Milne, and reviews by Joshua Weiner, Grant Buday, Craig Proctor, and our very own Linda Spalding and Laurie D Graham. The issue features new writing from Teju Cole, Dionne Brand, Robert Hass, David Thomson, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Colm Tóibín, Jim Harrison, and more.

Brick 89 contains the latest from Marilynne Robinson, Anne Carson, Homero Aridjis, Amitava Kumar, Clio Barnard, David Thomson, Patrick deWitt, Colm Tóibín, and, making his triumphant return to our pages, Jim Harrison. You also won’t want to miss interviews with Wim Wenders, Katherine Boo, and Aman Sethi; as well as art and photography by Arnaud Maggs, Angela Grauerholz, Sedat Pakay, T. Shanaathanan, Lee Miller, and much, much more.

 

Last updated 06/17/2013