Brick | A literary journal
Brick is an international literary journal, based out of Toronto, which prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word.| Brick
Brick is an international literary journal, based out of Toronto, which prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word.| 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…| 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 the worlds of artists, writers, photographers and filmmakers, among them Carol Shields, Mordecai Richler, . . . Source| Brick
The shop’s sign was posted near the roof for maximum visibility from the parking lot and motorway, but because I walked on the strip mall’s sidewalk, under the overhang, I passed the door once, twice…| Brick
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean Juan José Arreola Paris, 20 September 1954 Dear Arreola, Several weeks ago Emma sent me your two books, and when I opened them I found a dedication that…| Brick
On May 14, 2024, at the Toronto Reference Library, I spoke to Claire Messud about her new novel, This Strange Eventful History. To prepare, I watched some of her interviews. I wondered what kinds of questions she asked when . . . Source| Brick
Joanna Biggs’s essay “Smarrimento,” featured in the winter 2025 issue of Brick, opens with a description of Monica Vitti’s sleepy eyes, her ruffling hands, her perfectly sculpted hair—hair so animate…| Brick
Say woodcutter, not tyrant. Repetition, not apocalypse. Love, not disappearance.Melancholy, not depression. Derrida says that the melancholic is one who refuses to forget. That melancholy is necessary. I have learned to keep my . . . Source| Brick
A crescent moon in winter was a symbol of melancholy. A man with shoulders like an owl’s was assumed to be cruel. A woman’s eyebrows were commonly compared to hills in spring. After a failed coup…| Brick
The following conversation took place at the Toronto Reference Library on September 11, 2024, to celebrate the release of Dionne Brand’s Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.David Chariandy: You describe Salvage as a kind of forensics of how . . . Source| Brick
