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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Read All Over • Report on a news business
The Madding Crowd • Interviews with Canada’s far right
City Limits • Cultivating true community in Toronto
Necessity’s Child • When invention is not enough
Float a Loan • On balance sheets and bayonets
How the West Was One • Tim Cook’s story of Allied cooperation
A Brief History of Lunenburg County
Risky Business • A series of unfortunate events
Bored of the Rings • To have, to hold, and to head out
View Finder • A filmmaker’s kaleidoscopic memoir
Remembrances • Local history in British Columbia
To Save a Planet • Between despair and disaster
Cold Device
Clear the Air • Debating the carbon tax
Familiar Faces • Looks, liftoffs, and legacies
A Minister from Manitoba • Lloyd Axworthy looks back
The Waste Land • A garbageman talks trash
Without the Utmost Pertinacity • A case for uncertain reading
Ballad of the One-Year Bride
Different Strokes • Selections from Mavis Gallant and Carol Shields
Sisyphus Goes Skiing
Wise Guy • Insights of a celebrated novelist
Turn of the Century • Into the woods with Anik See
Shroom, Shroom • Jean Marc Ah‑Sen’s literary romp
Wheels of Time • Parenthood and grief two ways
A Storied Legacy • The Journey Prize at thirty-five
That Enduring Force