Brick, A Literary Journal

Brick, A Literary Journal 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 deeply engaged with what has come before, the magazine celebrates opinion, passion, revelation, and the occasional bad joke.

Announcing the lineup for our forthcoming Winter issue! Subscribe today, and come December, we'll send you a copy of stu...
09/14/2026

Announcing the lineup for our forthcoming Winter issue! Subscribe today, and come December, we'll send you a copy of stunning Brick 118.

https://brickmag.com/subscribe/

"I’ve never had much faith in my own take on things, and I know that the world is far too complex, first of all, for a s...
09/01/2026

"I’ve never had much faith in my own take on things, and I know that the world is far too complex, first of all, for a solution."

Leonard Cohen in Brick 77.

I have known of Leonard Cohen since I was twelve. My babysitter used to play the album Songs of Leonard Cohen on our hi-fi, over and over again. I didn’t understand the songs, but I sang along. I didn’…

The book is the thing, I thought. But its life, its aliveness, is conjured on each page throughout the stages of the boo...
08/28/2026

The book is the thing, I thought. But its life, its aliveness, is conjured on each page throughout the stages of the book’s creation (writing, editing, production, and reading, which is a kind of creation too)."

Book editor Lynn Henry thinks about the meaning of the page in Brick's Summer issue.

https://brickmag.com/alive-on-the-page/

"All happy families are alike? No, they’re not. I know Anna Karenina is a great novel, and that’s the opening line, but ...
08/18/2026

"All happy families are alike? No, they’re not. I know Anna Karenina is a great novel, and that’s the opening line, but it’s wrong. A little revision perhaps, Count Tolstoy."

In Brick's Summer issue Salman Rushdie speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his memoir Knife and more.

On February 14, 1989, Salman Rushdie became the most famous writer on earth. That was when the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran pronounced a fatwa, sentencing to death Rushdie and all involved in the…

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