Brick Magazine
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Brick is an international literary journal, based out of Toronto, which prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word.
Brick Magazine
1w ago
A version of this conversation was broadcast on Writers & Company on CBC Radio One in 2021, produced by Sandra Rabinovitch. I remember when Sigrid Nunez’s eighth title, The Friend, came out and three very different people— friends—told me . . .
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Brick Magazine
3M ago
Sweep up your shadow But you can’t turn back. There is no other way Through the black glens Or the lens of an eye. A keeping, a stride, Into episodes that arise. Equidistant: The interior egg Until cracked open To . . .
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Brick Magazine
4M ago
Alice Walker is the author of numerous books including The Colour Purple, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, and most recently The Same River Twice: Honouring the Difficult. Howard Zinn is the author of A Peoples’ History of the United . . .
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Brick Magazine
5M ago
“Variations on Silence: Reading the Tractatus” is a version of Jan Zwicky’s introduction to Alexander Booth’s new translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, recently published by Penguin Classics. It was published in Brick 112, the Winter 2024 issue, . . .
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Brick Magazine
5M ago
Throughout his career, Paul Holdengräber has chronicled the times we live in by interviewing artists, writers, and thinkers, and he remained a curator of public curiosity when the pandemic hit. With The Quarantine Tapes, which ran for two years, . . .
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Brick Magazine
6M ago
In memoriam Stan Dragland, 1942–2022 Life is language, I wanted to say. Only problem: it isn’t. Not language exactly, not language as such. Not a particular language either, though it has a lot to say—in fact, no end of things . . .
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Brick Magazine
6M ago
No, this wasn’t a frown. It wasn’t even an expression. This was simply the usual position of Umm Kevork’s eyebrows, agreeing with everything she might say. The same was true of her head, nose, and upper lip; each rose up . . .
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Brick Magazine
7M ago
It’s like precious china. A fresh white, virtually blue. Touch it, and it appears almost to melt, softly giving way. The spot touched turns the slightest pink, as if bashful, and surely, if bitten into, it would taste sweet, with . . .
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Brick Magazine
8M ago
Last night was a bad one. A bit of a standoff at one thirty in the morning with a nurse. I wanted more sleeping pills, and he insisted I had had enough already. Of course, I have my own stash . . .
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Brick Magazine
9M ago
I am mixing zaatar and olive oil in a small bowl. Zaatar is a particular blend of herbs and spices—thyme, sumac, marjoram, oregano, sesame seeds—and the trick to making a paste from it to spread on bread is getting just . . .
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