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.

Literary Review of Canada

Forged Fronts

Furthermore

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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