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.
Literary Review of Canada
Forged Fronts
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Star in Their Eyes • We’re pushing back—and we’re not sorry
The Order of Operations
Floe State? • On trouble in Greenland
Little Guy Diplomacy • Sealed with a Shawinigan handshake
Ulysses Unbound • Navigating this Age of Appetite
Algorithm Duplex
Cemented Legacy • Form follows Ford
Structural Issues • Canada’s architectural identity
Multiple Division • As if high school isn’t hard enough
Intellectual Property • Fresh takes on a storied institution
Gold River
a sincere thank you • The board of directors and staff truly appreciate all who supported the magazine in 2025, our thirty‑fourth year. Thank you to founding members of Bookworm (noted below with asterisks), and special thanks to those who have made multi‑year commitments, so that we can keep publishing this award‑winning and vital journal of ideas for decades to come.
Back to Bases • A mound to die on
That First Season • From the sidelines to the net
Dens of Iniquity • Rick Westhead reports from centre ice
The Company We Keep • Of hind legs and whiskers
Canada Lives Here? • Toward a broadcaster for the people
Published Experience • Five decades of Emma LaRocque
Write Call • A novelist’s magical thinking
Stretched Thin
Life of Letters • Problems I’d like to address
Creature of Bad Habits • Bradley Somer’s lonely traveller
Tale of Tails • The latest from Thomas Wharton
Strange as It Seems • An Argentine’s surreal English debut
Tick Talk • Daniel Cowper’s novel in verse
Bombs Away • Jean-Christophe Réhel in translation
A Vast Expanse • The final novel from Marie-Claire Blais
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