Brick 80
It all starts with the characters. They are what make literature. That’s how it begins—not with a sunset. You must avoid sunsets. If that’s how a work starts, don’t read it.
—Mavis Gallant
$10.00
- In this issue:
- Tomas Tranströmer’s breathing room
- Mavis Gallant: An in-depth interview with Stéphan Bureau
- Orhan Pamuk on the Brothers K
- New poetry from Sharon Olds and Don McKay
- Barbara Gowdy talks to Ramona Koval
- Gil Adamson in discussion with Michael Ondaatje
- Graham Greene’s letters
- Carmen Aguirre slips over the border
- Baziju in the Adelaide Hills
- New fiction from Susan Choi
- Guy Maddin and George Toles on the magic of silent film
- Robin Benger and Charlie Austin on the divine Murali
- Eleni Sikelianos eyes Creeley and Duncan
- Jim Harrison on the souls of dogs
- A story by Gil Adamson
- Viktor Nekrasov at home with Mikhail Bulgakov
- Julie Vandervoort’s fugal state
- John Berger on the peril of erasing the past
- Anton Chekhov remembered by Dr. Gregory Altschuller
- Robert Hass salutes Tomas Tranströmer
- Plus:
- A special eight-page photographic insert by Jonathan Luckhurst
- Photos and illustrations by:
- Daryl Vocat, Tanja-Tiziana, Julie Liger Belair, Martin Helmut Reis, David Hlynsky, Tony Calzetta, Frédéric Raevens, Adam L. Weintraub, John Berger, Marcin Porebski, Laszlo Szilvassy, and Rutu Modan