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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.

10/01/2025

"When you connect powerfully to a story, you’re actually connecting to your deepest truth. Your ancestors want to connect with you as much as you want to connect with them."

Eden Robinson's "Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted" from Brick 107.

https://brickmag.com/writing-prompts-for-the-broken-hearted/
ID: 1-A quote from Robinson's essay, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 107.

09/29/2025

Another Word on the Street in Toronto for the books. Thanks to all who stopped by the booth and made the weekend a special one!

09/26/2025

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.
ID: A photo of a porcupine resting its head on a back issue of Brick with text announcing our attendance at WOTS.

09/24/2025

"That was another thing that happened with the psychiatrist. I went at one stage and said, 'Look, I have a problem with these novels I’m writing. They’re really sad, and then I seem to go around the place making jokes.'"

Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue.

https://brickmag.com/an-interview-with-colm-toibin/
ID: 1-A quote from Tóibín's interview, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 115.

09/22/2025

Now unlocked from the archive, Lydia Davis's "Grammar Questions" from Brick 81.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85284/page/148?rc=9e08c16d-fe7a-4b4a-9367-53f432d9d74c
ID: 1-A quote from Davis's story; 2-AN image of the cover of Brick 81.

09/19/2025

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.
ID: A pink-tinted photo of a woman sitting in an arena and reading an issue of Brick.

09/17/2025

The final episode of this season of Writer to Writer is out today. Enjoy this conversation between Brick contributing editors Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole, offering a singular inside look at how they frame, and live, artistic practice. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3cnIsrqwL6VqDe7EsZTyjG?si=Gd26vqofTe2WVp7PTKlcIA
ID: An image divided in two, on one side a headshot of Amitava Kumar with an orange tint, on the other, a headshot of Teju Cole with a pink tint. In the centre text reading: Writer to Writer, Brick, A Literary Podcast

09/15/2025

"Will I sink into mysticism and write a bestseller? Or will I sink into my suffering self (entombed in my hat) and write a pamphlet to achieve cheap fame?"

Deborah Levy's "The Thinker" from Brick 114, now unlocked.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/119103/spread/110?rc=06a91701-04c8-42c1-97f1-de1608ddb5cd
ID: 1-A quote from Levy's story, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 114, which features a girl who rests her head on a ram in a field.

09/12/2025

Jeffrey Eugenides on writerly portents, from Brick 73.

https://brickmag.com/the-omens/
ID: 1-A quote from the essay, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 73.

09/10/2025

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 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CiVTUvuoLroL9GEi5pd7a?si=92e60c14022a46a8
ID: An image divided in two, on one side a headshot of Kyo Maclear with a blue tint, on the other, a headshot of Brandon Shimoda with a pink tint. In the centre text reading: Writer to Writer, Brick, A Literary Podcast

09/08/2025

"As a child I fell that the real world, in fact, was rather a shabby, frayed, uninteresting affair."

Now unlocked: Anita Desai talks worlds of literature in Brick 56.

https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85308/page/25?rc=36193576-7a71-4ca2-81ba-dc9436544a7d
ID: 1-A quote from Desai's interview, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 56, featuring a person in a red jacket with their face against a statue

09/04/2025

THIS 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!
ID: A yellow-tinted photo of a man in a suit with glasses reading an old issue of Brick. With text announcing the Eden Mills festival.

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