Brick 88

I feel I have the destiny, but I didn’t get the luck. — Yaqui Lopez

In this issue:

John Ralston Saul meets a would-be assassin
Tony Kushner talks to Eleanor Wachtel
Walter Murch discovers Kepler’s literary connections
Lee Smolin on science divided
John Berger on resistance
Jonathan Lethem out of this world
Leonard Gardner on a boxer robbed
Robin Benger stands up for cricket
Héctor Abad revisits Bertrand Russell
Will Aitken celebrates Death in Venice
Jeramy Dodds’s lighthouse trip
Grant Buday on the benefits of old books
Valerie Martin in conversation with John Biguenet
A magical memoir by Melora Wolff
Poems by Andrew Jamison
James Campbell remembers Patrick Leigh Fermor
Shane Rhodes, Aritha van Herk, Fred Wah, & Rudy Wiebe pay tribute to Robert Kroetsch

Plus:

A photo-essay by Deborah Luster
Drawings, paintings, and notes from the archives of Derek Walcott

And in the Review:

Robert Boyers, Laurie D Graham, Alayna Munce, Tara Quinn, & David Thomson

Photos and illustrations by:

Peter Gordon Mann, Martin Helmut Reis, Mark Byk, Kristine Tortora, Joan Leigh Fermor, Jerry Bauer, Alison Harris, Héctor Abad, Johann Rost, Don Peterson, Joan Marcus, Michael Ondaatje, Johannes Kepler, Christopher Dew