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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Pitch Perfect? • On the promise and perils of global soccer

From the 500s with Love • Remember peanuts and Cracker Jack?

The Lives of Chickens

Sound Footings • On otter pelts and territorial disputes

La variole • Echoes of infections past

The Pigeon Press • Boats, birds, and telegraph wires

Puss in Books • We have always served at their pleasure

Fiction Pool • Three international contenders

Wolves at the Door • Seeking a robust Canadian nationalism

Landmothers

How Graphic Are These Novels? • Banned books deserve reviews too

Doing Nothing Right • Somewhere between laid-back and laid off

Island of Exteriors • Before and after Habitat 67

Cuttlebones

A Separate Piece • The misery of a broken heart

Unaccompanied Minors • A different kind of immigration story

That Old Song • Two accounts of the Near North

There Will Be Change • Of worker bees and warnings

Just Dessert • A surfer runs to it

Washing the Tiny

In No Small Part • A. F. Moritz’s witty collection

A Week in September • Wayne Johnston unveils another family drama

Inscrutable Revelations • The latest from John Irving

Pet Project • A sharp debut from Nadja Lubiw-Hazard

Slain and Abel • Don Gillmor’s Hogtown confidential

A Spirited Debacle • Michael Eddy’s satirical first novel

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