Brick: A Literary Journal, Winter 2026

by Laurie D. Graham (Editor), Dionne Brand (Editor), David Chariandy (Editor)

Madhur Anand in conversation with Kate Briggs

Sebastián Wilfredo Moya bridges the Rio Grande

Sina Queyras splits the self

Rinaldo Walcott on Sam Cooke and the Black utopic

Angelo Santos hears sirens

Zoe Valery’s vanishing time = ∞

Greg Hollingshead takes a long, hard look in the mirror

Eleanor Wachtel interviews Madeleine Thien

Katherine McKittrick refracts the poetry of M. NourbeSe Philip

Fiction by Lydia Davis, Solvej Balle, Fatma Qandil, Josiah Nelson, and Cristina Rivera Garza

Poetry by Diane Seuss, Jana Prikryl, and Jan Zwicky

Paperback

Published January 1, 2026

About the author

Laurie D. Graham comes from Treaty 6 territory (Sherwood Park, Alberta) and currently lives in Nogojiwanong, in the treaty and traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabeg (Peterborough, Ontario), where she is a poet, an editor, and the publisher of Brick magazine. Her first book, Rove, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and her second book, Settler Education, was nominated for the Trillium Award for Poetry. A third book is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart in 2022.

Reviews

[Raffael Hirt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This issue focuses on immigration. Zoe Valery's "Vanishing Time: Portable Country" and Sebastián Wilfredo Moya's "The Cubans" are eye-witness accounts from the perspective of volunteers.

I also enjoyed Jan Zwicky's poem "Squash" and Greg Hollingshead's short essay "My Problem with Mirrors."

The issue's final piece—Josiah Nelson's "This Mysterious Ache"—is a brilliant fictional biography in the style of Stanislaw Lem's "A Perfect Vacuum" or Roberto Bolaño's "The Nazi Literature of America," told entirely through biographical notes you would find on book blurbs or at the end of articles.