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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Sketch and the City • The Muddy York that could

Interior Designs • The bitter fruits of Okanagan development

State of the Nation

The Ace • A Jewish war hero

Doctor Who? • Taking the Château Frontenac to court

Sting Operation • The history of an anglophone university

McClueless • A hamburger magnate comes to town

Check It Out • At the summit of global e-commerce

Night Sky as a Tissue

Please, Sir? • Mark Kingwell is just asking

Need Not Apply • Diversity, debate, and the demise of liberalism

Tents in the Churchyard • What Mother Maggie saw

Shadow Boxing • On the dark magic of self-acceptance

Old Sport • Peter Unwin finds connection

Ripple Effect • Coming to terms with a father’s absence

Stand-Up Guy • And he would paddle 1,200 miles

Wild Harvest

Raw Material • History on the half shell

Goes to Show • A Joyce Wieland retrospective

Observations on an &Man Canvas after a Fifteen-Year-Old Got Jumped in the Parking Lot

Descent into Hell • Lorna Goodison wrestles with Dante

That End of the Stick • Short stories that measure up

Formative Years • Coming of age in Indigenous Canada

Jersey Boys • For king or country?

Drive to Survive • Rob Benvie’s rueful and ruminative tale

While He Wrote • Martha Bátiz tells an untold story

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