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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Premier Event • The life and times of John Norquay

Papa Pancho • Reforms, contradictions, and the Church

Has Anyone in Your Family Ever

The Prizefighter • Barrington Francis’s hard-won title

Anxiety of Influence • When the government hires out

Home Inspection • Reappraising the housing crisis

Top Shelf • The Cundill History Prize finalists

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In This Assembly • Behind Quebec’s political realignment

The Shape of Water

Auto Biography • The short-lived dream of the SV1

Parting Thoughts • Jo-Ann Wallace’s posthumous memoir

Toothpicks

Rigged Poetics • On bards and bitumen

A Reckoning • Dionne Brand returns to non-fiction

What Lies Ahead • My mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s

My Late Husband’s File Style

Pixie Dust • Our moment with Maggie Smith

Water Log • A deep dive into Lake Ontario

Alberta Views • Corinna Chong hits the road

Borrowed Time • Claire Messud’s singular novel

Tempests and Trysts • The latest from Jane Urquhart

The Libertine • A portrait of Peggy Guggenheim

Under One Roof • In Montreal with Arjun Basu

Current Affairs • Hélène Dorion in translation

Tonic of Wildness