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Brick brings international voices to Canadian readers, and Canadian voices to the world, in the widest and most galvanizing exploration of the arts possible.

Brick is a biannual international journal of literary non-fiction based in Toronto, featuring essays, interviews, and insights from the world’s best-loved writers and fresh, emerging voices. It prizes the personal voice and publishes essays, interviews, memoirs, cultural commentaries, and belles lettres on everything from film to food, as well as the occasional story or poem. Both up-to-date and d

eeply engaged with what has come before, the magazine celebrates opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke.

01/08/2025

"The institution has no idea of the value of what it owns, of the papers that lie silent in its files. But what if it found out? Then the hierarchy of intellectual value it embodies would allow it to destroy anything that does not closely align with its own project."

Iman Mersal on the nihilism of the archive.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/116499/spread/28?rc=154e5e42-78e1-46a7-80b7-9453ebedc9dc
ID: On a purple background, a quote from Mersal's essay.

01/06/2025

"He told me his story with none of the drama we perceive in it but rather with a forceful pragmatism. I knew that was precisely the tone and plain language in which I had to write the book, if it was to be a faithful account."

Sunila Galappatti tells Commodore Boyagoda's story, cautiously, in Brick 98.

https://brickmag.com/did-he-go-stockholm/
ID: On a peach-coloured background, a quote from Galappatti's essay.

01/03/2025

"In Tropisms, often regarded as essential to understanding the body of her work, Sarraute explores the different layers of the self that are formed prior to language and prior to sexual identity: 'On the inside, where I am, the sexes don’t exist,' she declared."

Lily Tuck on Nathalie Sarraute in Brick 94.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83501/spread/100?rc=0c6c8d97-95b7-4187-8398-a91909b3adf
ID: On a brown background, a quote from Tuck's essay.

12/30/2024

"Much of the best things in a [John] Ford film," said his devotee, Satyajit Ray, after Ford's death in 1973, "has the mysterious, indefinable quality of poetry. Because some of them appear casual-even accidental-it is difficult to realize how much experience and mastery lie behind them."

Amit Chaudhuri on the casual cinematic moment.

https://brickmag.com/the-casual-moment/
ID: On a sandy beige background, a quote from Chaudhuri's essay, which appears in Brick 75.

12/28/2024

"I wanted to luxuriate in the real, which was, of course, precisely that which I imagined as nonluxury, the absolutely plain, the pure."

John Melillo on childhood monastic dreams in Brick 92.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83499/spread/152?rc=82dbeec7-0d27-46bc-b93e-428a87af1194
ID: On a pale yellow background, a quote from Melillo's essay.

12/26/2024

Go literary this Boxing Day and treat yourself or a loved one to a Brick subscription. Receive or send the finest in contemporary writing—essays, fiction, interviews, and poetry—to enjoy year-round.

Save $5 on all one- and two-year subscriptions with code BRICKTHEHALLS.

Add Brick to your Boxing Day haul by following https://brickmag.com/subscribe/.

12/21/2024

It's the shortest (darkest) day of the calendar year, and we can't help but wondering, Why go out?

Sheila Heti ruminates on the prospect of staying in and quitting people altogether. Read more on Brick's website.

https://brickmag.com/why-go-out/
ID: On a light beige background, an excerpt from Heti's essay.

12/20/2024

This month, beautiful Brick 114 hit the shelves. If you’ve been loving this issue—which features Claire Keegan, Natalie Diaz, Lucy Ives, Amitava Kumar, Robert Bringhurst, Deborah Levy, Victoria Chang, H**e Uhart, and many more—we invite you to consider making a donation to Brick.

brickmag.com/donate/

Simply put, donations keep Brick going. We are so grateful to all who’ve contributed to our year-end fundraising campaign so far, as your gifts are absolutely vital to the magazine and the readers and writers who cherish it.

This year, your support means more than ever. And we've got beautiful gifts to send you as thanks, from your name on our Brick Wall to totes to signed books from Brick’s editors. All the details at brickmag.com/donate.

Wishing a beautiful solstice and a fulfilling new year to all.
ID: On a green background, a pattern of pink-coloured Bricks, some featuring a plain cover and others the inside two-column design with repeated text that reads: "Donate to Brick."

12/16/2024

"Poem for Today" by Hajer Mirwali.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83504/page/74?rc=a219756a-8968-41ad-90de-c310b73bfef9
ID: On a blue background, a quote from Mirwali's poem.

12/12/2024

"I genuinely have no interest in judging anybody in my stories. I leave it to the reader, and I leave it to the reader that is myself also."

Eleanor Wachtel speaks with Claire Keegan in the winter issue of Brick.

https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-claire-keegan/
ID: On a light beige background, a quote from Keegan's interview.

12/09/2024

Tonight is the night! This evening, join us at Flying Books to celebrate the launch of our Winter issue.

With Michael Helm as our host and readings from Kenzie Allen, José Teodoro, and Kayal Vizhi, the party will bring the literary joy we all love to revel in. And like any good shindig, there will be snacks, bubbly, and time for swell conversation.

We can't wait to gather in community with you and launch Brick 114 into the world!

RSVP at https://simpli.events/e/launch114. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Image description: The photograph featured on the launch invitation is from the inside front cover of the new issue. It is from Alessandra Sanguinetti's 2003 series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Illusion of an Everlasting Summer. A hand reaches into the frame to feed a baby bird who has its mouth opened. There is tinsel nearby, a clock on the wall, and a painting of a natural landscape featuring a deer.

12/06/2024

A big congratulations to Martha Baillie for her recent win of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for There is No Blue. You can read an excerpt from the book, published in Brick 103.

https://brickmag.com/her-body/
ID: On a grey background, an excerpt from "Her Body."

12/05/2024

Joanna Biggs's “Smarrimento” from our Winter issue, Brick 114, is now live on Literary Hub!

Biggs unravels the mysticism of Monica Vitti, the legendary Italian actress, who became a muse incommunicability.

Go beyond the silver screen with Biggs at https://lithub.com/an-enigma-embodied-on-monica-vitti-italys-muse-of-incommunicability/.
Image description: a grey-cream background features a passage from Joanna Biggs's essay "Smarrimento."

12/04/2024

Brick is getting crafty this coming weekend! Join us at the three-day extravaganza that is City of Craft market from December 6 to December 8. Hold Brick 114 in your hands and take us up on the sweet subscription and back-issue deals that we'll be hawking!

We can't wait to spend the weekend with you!

To learn more about the market, Toronto’s largest not-for-profit, juried craft show featuring craft-based installations, follow https://theatrecentre.org/event/city-of-craft-2024/.
Image description: on a bubble-gum pink background, burgundy coloured dancers dressed in ballet gear, during a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, direct your attention to information on the City of Craft.

12/03/2024

Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 4, celebrate the launch of Brick 114 in Montreal with us and Writers Read!

The event will be hosted by one of our formidable editors, Madeleine Thien, and Brick publisher, Laurie D. Graham. The evening will feature readings from contributors Kyo Maclear and Lucy Ives, followed by a discussion including Sina Queyras.

Festivities begin at 7:00 p.m. at Concordia's York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605. RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN2lxqIWpndVNl55yQadUs-UXolEwzxkYu6x9qepuFb6iTjg/viewform.
Image description: a black-and-white time-lapse rendering of Davida Monk’s Songs without Words 14.

11/29/2024

This holiday season, treat your loved one to a Brick subscription! Send the finest in contemporary writing—essays, fiction, interviews, and poetry—for them to enjoy year-round.

Save $5 on all one- and two-year gift subscriptions with code BRICKTHEHALLS.

Start your holiday shopping early at https://brickmag.com/subscribe/.

p.s. Don’t forget to treat yourself! Renew your own subscription with the above discount code and hunker down for winter poetically.
Image description: on a purple-grey background, the Brick 114 sits front and centre, it overlaps but does not hide the phrase "Brick Friday."

11/28/2024

The countdown has begun! On December 9, at Flying Books, join us in celebrating the launch of Brick 114. The night will feature readings from Kenzie Allen, José Teodoro, and Kayal Vizhi, and as with all our legendary parties, there will snacks, drinks, and much Brick-induced merriment. Come one, come all!

RSVP at https://simpli.events/e/launch114 so we can ring in this joyous occasion with you! Doors open at 7:30 p.m.💖
Image description: The photograph featured on the launch invitation is from the inside front cover of the new issue. It is from Alessandra Sanguinetti's 2003 series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Illusion of an Everlasting Summer. A hand reaches into the frame to feed a baby bird who has its mouth opened. There is tinsel nearby, a clock on the wall, and a painting of a natural landscape featuring a deer.

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