Brick 89

We have not escaped, nor have we in any sense diminished, the mystery of our existence. We have only rejected any language that would seem to acknowledge it.
                                                                       — Marilynne Robinson

In this issue:

Katherine Boo and Aman Sethi in conversation with Chiki Sarkar
Wim Wenders talks to Peggy Baker
Anne Carson in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel
Lisa Moore reads Mavis Gallant
Priscila Uppal tells you about her mother
Marilynne Robinson responds to the new atheists
Amitava Kumar’s bathroom exegesis
David Thomson and Clio Barnard discuss The Arbor
Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin
Jaspreet Singh remembers November 1984
Homero Aridjis pays tribute to Leonora Carrington
Mary J. Breen and Rosemary Sullivan on matters of grave importance
Jim Harrison suffers for you
Back to the Follies with Stan Dragland, Mac Jamieson, and Margaret Avison
Fiction by Patrick deWitt and C. M. Cooper
Poems by Adrienne Rich, Anne Carson, and Colleen Thibaudeau

Plus:

Files from T. Shanaathanan’s Incomplete Thombu
A photo-essay by Angela Grauerholz on her library lost to fire

And in the Review:

Tim Lilburn, John McIntyre, and Stephen Ross

Photos and illustrations by:

Ulli Weiss, Károly Gink, Michael Ondaatje, Martin Helmut Reis, Nick Wall, Trevor Ydreos, Mark Byk, Arnaud Maggs, Sedat Pakay, Rick/Simon, and Laszlo Szilvassy