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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Ottawa Confidential • The private thoughts of a public figure
Standing on the Doorsill
How They Remembered • New takes on Trudeau and Lévesque
Bring to Heal • A Canadian evangelist in Hollywood
Very Big in Sheboygan • Why we still love John Candy
And Then There Were Three • The 2025 Cundill finalists
With Friends Like These • A revisionist history of Operation Overlord
Vet Check • Now open your mouth and say oink
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Abattoir! • Having your steak and eating it too
Joint Ventures • A short history of legal marijuana
iCapitalism • An arrangement that changed our lives
Plate Appearances • José Bautista and the Temple of Dome
Look Both Ways • Cathrin Bradbury keeps going
Life Lines • Miriam Toews’s affirming reflections
On the Wing • Letting hope linger and fly
Streams of Consciousness • Two authors go with the flow
He’s Not Interested in Outer Space — I Love Him Anyway
Two Emails • Coincidence strikes like premonition
Needed, Nearer
Face Book • Gazing at Canada’s portrait competition
Splices of Life • Mikhail Iossel delays the full stop
The Aftermath • A mournful debut from Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
Modern Liaisons • Russell Smith’s satiric critique
Empire State of Mind • Yiming Ma speculates
Season upon Season • Teri Vlassopoulos on the cost of happiness
A Miller’s Son