Brick: A Literary Journal, Winter 2021

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

Brick has grown from a grassroots magazine to one of the most respected literary journals in the world. Focused on literary nonfiction of various genres and subjects -- the writing life, travel, film, memoir, interviews with writers, and excerpts from their works -- Brick is an ongoing conversation between readers and writers. This issue includes:
Tessa McWatt composes a poet's live in libretto in "Murmuring in a Dream of Freedom"
Andre Bagoo crushes on Siddhartha
Heather Jessup becomes a nonorientable surface in "Klein Bottle"
Pasha Malla in the tractor beam of the future in "The Actual Now"
Aisha Sabatini Sloan skips the adventure tour
Tessa Fontaine untangles hair’s art history in "A Record of Your Body over Time"
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Sigrid Nunez
Amanda Mei Kim tries to reach Beikoku in "Dear Sosobo"
Sofia Samatar on Charlie Parker, academia, and modes of exposure in "Skin Feeling"
Linda Traversi’s dream interpretations in "The Planet"
Rachel Andrews brings protest art home in "house/work"
Kaie Kellough on head shops, hardcore, and Wonder Bread in "The Tropicana"
Poetry by Sheri Benning, Yusuf Saadi, Rudy Wiebe, and John Steffler
Pass the popcorn "Seventeen Writers Go to the Movies": 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
Plus artwork by Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Lauren Tamaki, Alicia Nauta, Jonathan Castellino, and Jon Sasaki

126 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2021

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.