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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Literary Review of Canada

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Markups and Shakedowns • The anti-democratic nature of neo-liberalism

Bungalow

Let’s Talk about It • Elizabeth Renzetti continues a conversation

Pole Position • Stephen Harper turns to vexillology

Survival Mechanisms • Political reforms for a tumultuous time

Machine Learning • Histories of planes, trains, and tractors

Chair Person • Clara Porset’s modernist sensibility

Shows and Tell • A theatre director’s life in the wings

Route of the Matter • No wrong turns on the road to Victoria

Source Material • Quebec authors mine American letters

[Bleep] • Won’t someone please think of the children?

Handed Down • An editor’s family history

She Loved Me Not • A moving meditation

Illuminated Clementine • What does the soul look like?

Of Sinks and Secrets • The other life of an abandoned character

Acts of Dismantling • Three poets explore uncertainty

Version

Write the Ship • The many lives of a luxury liner

Colonial Testimonial • A passionate critique of nation building

Review of Play

Remote Work • When Knud Rasmussen visited Canada

Mediums and the Message • The spirituality of Mackenzie King

“Trancelating” the Verses of Agnes Fong (Lucero): (XXXII)

Reality Bytes • Deni Ellis Béchard’s haunting future

Consumer Reports • A culinary collection of stories

Grenadian Idol

Plot Twisters • The latest from Leila Marshy

A Doomsday Gap