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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So to Speak • Canadian free expression is not American free speech
Loose Threads • The lesser-known critics of multiculturalism
All the Right Notes • Three musical titles keep time
Heretical or Heroic? • A European perspective on Louis Riel
Meditation on Northwestern Ontario
The Man, the Myth, the T-shirts • In the shadow of Louis Riel
Little Orphan Áine • A story we like to tell ourselves
Walkie Talkie • One wayfarer’s history of Vancouver
Of Pigs and Potions • The enduring delights of children’s books
The Grey Plateau • When the world stopped five years ago
Upstream Battle • Lessons on environmental stewardship
A Life in Print • George Galt on and off the page
Namesake • What I didn’t know I knew about Alice Munro
New Year’s Eve on the Swamp
Ode to Nickel City Women
A Fractured Future • Saad T. Farooqi’s debut novel
Costs of Living • Unique spins on bad bargains
A Thirst for Destruction • Sébastien Dulude’s mine craft
True Depths • A haunting tragedy on the road north
Winnipeg What It Used to Be
The Little Things • David O’Meara turns to prose
Saddle Up • Richard Kelly Kemick’s eclectic collection
Gritty Corners • Valérie Bah documents the margins
Confessions of a Bookseller