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November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
’Tis the season to give the gift of Brick! Send the finest in contemporary writing—essays, fiction, interviews, and poetry—for your loved ones to enjoy year-round.
Save $5 on all one- and two-year gift subscriptions with code THEGIFTOFBRICK.
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Save $5 on all one- and two-year gift subscriptions with code THEGIFTOFBRICK.
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Save the date 📣 On Monday, December 8, at Flying Books, join us in celebrating the launch of Brick 116. There will be readings from Angelo Santos and Josiah Nelson, plus refreshments!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Save the date 📣 On Monday, December 8, at Flying Books, join us in celebrating the launch of Brick 116. There will be readings from Angelo Santos and Josiah Nelson, plus refreshments!
RSVP here: simpli.events/e/brick116
RSVP here: simpli.events/e/brick116
Two poems by Balam Rodrigo, translated from the Spanish by Dan Bellm, now available to read on the Brick website!
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November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Two poems by Balam Rodrigo, translated from the Spanish by Dan Bellm, now available to read on the Brick website!
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brickmag.com/two-poems-2/
Our beautiful winter issue is coming soon! Featuring work by Lydia Davis, Solvej Balle, Cristina Rivera Garza, Madeleine Thien, Rinaldo Walcott, Kate Briggs, Diane Seuss, and so much more.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Our beautiful winter issue is coming soon! Featuring work by Lydia Davis, Solvej Balle, Cristina Rivera Garza, Madeleine Thien, Rinaldo Walcott, Kate Briggs, Diane Seuss, and so much more.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“What cannot be said, can be not said!” This gnomic observation captures very precisely his aim in the Tractatus. It is both the fundamental aspiration of the project and its engine.
Jan Zwicky on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, from Brick 112.
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Jan Zwicky on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, from Brick 112.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“What cannot be said, can be not said!” This gnomic observation captures very precisely his aim in the Tractatus. It is both the fundamental aspiration of the project and its engine.
Jan Zwicky on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, from Brick 112.
ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/11381...
Jan Zwicky on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, from Brick 112.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Behold the lineup for our forthcoming Winter issue!
Brick 116 traverses borders, timelines, languages, and family ties. Subscribe today and this issue, with work by these fourteen writers and more, at your doorstep in December.
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Brick 116 traverses borders, timelines, languages, and family ties. Subscribe today and this issue, with work by these fourteen writers and more, at your doorstep in December.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Behold the lineup for our forthcoming Winter issue!
Brick 116 traverses borders, timelines, languages, and family ties. Subscribe today and this issue, with work by these fourteen writers and more, at your doorstep in December.
brickmag.com/subscribe/
Brick 116 traverses borders, timelines, languages, and family ties. Subscribe today and this issue, with work by these fourteen writers and more, at your doorstep in December.
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Now online, Sheung-King's "Synthetic Strokes: Not Writing from 2021 to 2024."
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Synthetic Strokes: Not Writing from 2021 to 2024 | Brick
Hongkong seems very quiet, but outsiders do not know whether the Chinese who live here are comfortable or not. Men communicate their thoughts and feelings through writing, yet most Chinese nowadays…
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October 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Now online, Sheung-King's "Synthetic Strokes: Not Writing from 2021 to 2024."
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Eden Robinson's "Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted" from Brick 107.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Eden Robinson's "Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted" from Brick 107.
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This weekend we'll be at Toronto's Word on the Street! Locale: David Pecaut Square, 215 King Street W. You can find the Brick booth by the northwest entrance (right off King Street). We'll be there selling Bricks and subscriptions, talking literature, and embracing early autumn days.
September 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This weekend we'll be at Toronto's Word on the Street! Locale: David Pecaut Square, 215 King Street W. You can find the Brick booth by the northwest entrance (right off King Street). We'll be there selling Bricks and subscriptions, talking literature, and embracing early autumn days.
"You’re working so slowly and tentatively that the large questions often come by accident."
Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue.
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Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"You’re working so slowly and tentatively that the large questions often come by accident."
Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue.
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Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue.
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This Sunday, Sept 21, Brick will be setting up shop at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Come say hi and discover new and old Bricks + magnificent, mag-lovers' merch.
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This Sunday, Sept 21, Brick will be setting up shop at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Come say hi and discover new and old Bricks + magnificent, mag-lovers' merch.
The final episode of this season of Writer to Writer is out today. A conversation between Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole, offering a singular inside look at how they frame, and live, artistic practice.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The final episode of this season of Writer to Writer is out today. A conversation between Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole, offering a singular inside look at how they frame, and live, artistic practice.
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3cnI...
Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/3cnI...
"Am I original and contemporary or just good fun late at night?"
Deborah Levy in Brick 114, now unlocked!
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Deborah Levy in Brick 114, now unlocked!
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September 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Am I original and contemporary or just good fun late at night?"
Deborah Levy in Brick 114, now unlocked!
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Deborah Levy in Brick 114, now unlocked!
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Listen today!
Kyo Maclear and Brandon Shimoda bond over their quests to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self in this new episode of Brick's Writer to Writer series. Available wherever you stream.
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Kyo Maclear and Brandon Shimoda bond over their quests to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self in this new episode of Brick's Writer to Writer series. Available wherever you stream.
open.spotify.com/episode/5CiV...
September 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Listen today!
Kyo Maclear and Brandon Shimoda bond over their quests to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self in this new episode of Brick's Writer to Writer series. Available wherever you stream.
open.spotify.com/episode/5CiV...
Kyo Maclear and Brandon Shimoda bond over their quests to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self in this new episode of Brick's Writer to Writer series. Available wherever you stream.
open.spotify.com/episode/5CiV...
"Literature is a meditation of life, and it's born of life. it's not divorced from it."
Now unlocked: an interview with Anita Desai from Brick 56.
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Now unlocked: an interview with Anita Desai from Brick 56.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Literature is a meditation of life, and it's born of life. it's not divorced from it."
Now unlocked: an interview with Anita Desai from Brick 56.
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Now unlocked: an interview with Anita Desai from Brick 56.
ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85308...
On Sunday, we'll be at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Come by the Brick table 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. for subscriptions, back issues, merch, and chat. Hope to see you there!
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
On Sunday, we'll be at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Come by the Brick table 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. for subscriptions, back issues, merch, and chat. Hope to see you there!
"I suppose part of the deal of the novel is that it better be very interesting, even if it’s just that business of Jim seeing Eilis on a beach and saying nothing to her."
Colm Tóibín in Brick 115.
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Colm Tóibín in Brick 115.
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An Interview with Colm Tóibín | Brick
I first came across the work of Colm Tóibín when I was doing a special series on Ireland for Writers & Company some thirty years ago, and I’ve admired him ever since. At the time, he was one of the…
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September 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"I suppose part of the deal of the novel is that it better be very interesting, even if it’s just that business of Jim seeing Eilis on a beach and saying nothing to her."
Colm Tóibín in Brick 115.
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Colm Tóibín in Brick 115.
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Now streaming on the Brick Podcast: a conversation between Sheila Heti and Vivian Gornick.
Listen today on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
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Listen today on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
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August 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Now streaming on the Brick Podcast: a conversation between Sheila Heti and Vivian Gornick.
Listen today on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
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Listen today on Spotify or Apple Podcasts!
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Special offer! For a limited time only:
Get a one-year subscription to both Brick and The Capilano Review at 10% off. That's four issues, a magazine for every season: TCR has you covered fall and spring and Brick will keep you company winter and summer.
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Get a one-year subscription to both Brick and The Capilano Review at 10% off. That's four issues, a magazine for every season: TCR has you covered fall and spring and Brick will keep you company winter and summer.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Special offer! For a limited time only:
Get a one-year subscription to both Brick and The Capilano Review at 10% off. That's four issues, a magazine for every season: TCR has you covered fall and spring and Brick will keep you company winter and summer.
brickmag.com/buy/
Get a one-year subscription to both Brick and The Capilano Review at 10% off. That's four issues, a magazine for every season: TCR has you covered fall and spring and Brick will keep you company winter and summer.
brickmag.com/buy/
"Doubtless, the writer one ends up becoming, is in part, the fruit of chance encounters. The old adage says it well: we are who we frequent."
Gail Scott on language and life in Montreal. Now unlocked from Brick 59.
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Gail Scott on language and life in Montreal. Now unlocked from Brick 59.
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August 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"Doubtless, the writer one ends up becoming, is in part, the fruit of chance encounters. The old adage says it well: we are who we frequent."
Gail Scott on language and life in Montreal. Now unlocked from Brick 59.
ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85398...
Gail Scott on language and life in Montreal. Now unlocked from Brick 59.
ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85398...
"Life is language, I wanted to say. Only problem: / it isn’t."
Begin your week with a poem by Robert Bringhurst, from Brick 111.
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Begin your week with a poem by Robert Bringhurst, from Brick 111.
brickmag.com/life-poem/
August 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Life is language, I wanted to say. Only problem: / it isn’t."
Begin your week with a poem by Robert Bringhurst, from Brick 111.
brickmag.com/life-poem/
Begin your week with a poem by Robert Bringhurst, from Brick 111.
brickmag.com/life-poem/
"I often think his true form is the note scribbled on a scrap of paper or a napkin, in a diary, or in the margins of a book."
Darcy Ballantyne on her father Austin Clarke, featured in Brick's summer issue.
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Darcy Ballantyne on her father Austin Clarke, featured in Brick's summer issue.
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With Love, Dad: On Finally Meeting My Father, the Novelist Austin Clarke
The first time I met Austin Clarke—in the mid-1980s at his house on McGill Street in Toronto—he gave me two things. One was an old paper copy of the duplicate galleys for the last novel in the Toro…
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August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"I often think his true form is the note scribbled on a scrap of paper or a napkin, in a diary, or in the margins of a book."
Darcy Ballantyne on her father Austin Clarke, featured in Brick's summer issue.
lithub.com/with-love-da...
Darcy Ballantyne on her father Austin Clarke, featured in Brick's summer issue.
lithub.com/with-love-da...
Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel about her audio life: thirty-three years hosting Writers & Company, where she spoke with writers from Jamaica Kincaid to Oliver Sacks, Kazuo Ishiguro to Philip Roth, Michael Ondaatje to Sophie Calle, and so many more.
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The Art of the Interview: A Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel | Brick
For thirty-three years, Eleanor Wachtel hosted CBC’s Writers & Company. Each week, her hour-long conversations—generous, probing, serious, illuminating—opened windows from every corner in Canada into…
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July 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel about her audio life: thirty-three years hosting Writers & Company, where she spoke with writers from Jamaica Kincaid to Oliver Sacks, Kazuo Ishiguro to Philip Roth, Michael Ondaatje to Sophie Calle, and so many more.
brickmag.com/the-art-of-t...
brickmag.com/the-art-of-t...