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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Homer on the Range • From Sophocles to Danielle Smith

Aere perennius • For Alexa Carroll (1971–2023) and in response to artwork by JoAnne Tucker

Poisoned Ivy • Where does higher education go next?

When She Wakes

Man of the Hour • Sandford Fleming’s cables and clocks

Reminders

The Spice Is Right • Extracting the truth of real vanilla

Foods for Thought • Around the world in eight dishes

Ranks and Files • The next move in championship chess

Back to Banff • Where the buffalo roam … again

Left Unsaid • When anguish upends narrative

The Next Chapter • On writing and motherhood

Mordecai’s Versions • In the archives of a literary great

Old Things

As the Matador Says • Two more books from George Bowering

Press Conference • New histories of Canadian print culture

Statues, Stamps, and Souvenirs • What we want from dead writers

Against the Stream • Rollie Pemberton asks us to listen up

Lately Lost in Translation • The strange worlds of José Emilio Pacheco

Keyboard Confessional • An angsty debut by Philippe Mineau

Required Reading • Randy Boyagoda goes back to school

Worlds Not Their Own • Views from Istanbul and Toronto

Branching Out • The latest from Anita Rau Badami

Masking for Trouble • Kevin Jagernauth’s small-town heist

Their Long Liaison • A wartime thriller from John Delacourt

Not the Same as Reading It