New poetry by Patrick Lane, Adrienne Rich, and Lisa Robertson
A. L. Kennedy goes swimming
Remembering Zal Yanofsky & Mary Meigs
“The Shawinigan Strangler” exposed by John MacLachlan Gray
New translations of Rabindranath Tagore and Arthur Rimbaud
P. K. Page recalls A. M. Klein
Louise Steinman and Pumla Godobo-Madikizela discuss forgiveness in South Africa
New fiction from André Alexis
Maggie Helwig goes to the Milosevic trial
Caroline Anderson unearths a lost classic by J.-Henri Fabre
Lost Careers:
In 1994, for our fiftieth issue, Brick asked some writers to tell us what they might have been if they hadn’t become writers. Now, for our twenty-fifth anniversary, we revisit the question with a few dozen more . . . (and yet more coming in Brick 72!) Anita Rau Badami, Russell Banks, Christian Bök, Eavan Boland, Dionne Brand, Hugh Brody, Semi Chellas, George Elliott Clarke, Robert Creeley, Meaghan Delahunt, Geoff Dyer, Atom Egoyan, Elizabeth Hay, Michael Helm, Sheila Heti, Wayne Johnston, A. L. Kennedy, Mark Kingwell, Jonathan Lethem, Greil Marcus, Erin Mouré, William Muir, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, Linda Spalding, Graham Swift, David Thomson, Jane Urquhart, Michael Winter
Plus:
Art Spiegelman, George Herriman, Brian Brett, Rosalind Brackenbury, Lucy Gray, Isabel Huggan, Rosalind Goss, George Fetherling, Leonard Woolf, exciting restaurant reviews from Mumbai, and a letter from Günter Grass.
Photos and illustrations by:
Linda Spalding, Mary Meigs, George Herriman, John Berger, Sue Lloyd, C. Sleppo, Semi Chellas, Esta Spalding, Eric Feinblatt, Samuel Chamberlain, Maggie Helwig, Rosalind Goss, Walter Murch, Elliott Schaffner, Sandy Sykes, and Lucy Gray
