Brick #108 (Winter 2022)

Editors: Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Laurie D. Graham, Michael Helm, Liz Johnston, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Madeleine Thien

Publisher: Laurie D. Graham (2021)

Brick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto. With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on.

In this issue:

• Tessa McWatt composes a poet’s life in libretto
• Andre Bagoo crushes on Siddhartha
• Heather Jessup becomes a nonorientable surface
• Pasha Malla in the tractor beam of the future
• Aisha Sabatini Sloan skips the adventure tour
• Tessa Fontaine untangles hair’s art history
• Eleanor Wachtel interviews Sigrid Nunez
• Amanda Mei Kim tries to reach Beikoku
• Sofia Samatar on Charlie Parker, academia, and modes of exposure
• Linda Traversi’s dream interpretations
• Rachel Andrews brings protest art home
• Kaie Kellough on head shops, hardcore, and Wonder Bread
• Poetry by Sheri Benning, Yusuf Saadi, Rudy Wiebe, and John Steffler
• Pass the popcorn: Dionne Brand, Vinh Nguyen, Rawi Hage, David Bezmozgis, Allison LaSorda, Rinaldo Walcott, Christina Sharpe, Yohani Mendis, José Teodoro, Michael Ondaatje, Canisia Lubrin, Michael Helm, Laurie D. Graham, Orly Zebak, Madeleine Thien, Jim Shepard, and Jake Kennedy go to the movies