Canada's leading magazine of ideas. The LRC features thought-provoking book reviews, essays, and poetry: contributors include many of the country's most celebrated writers, from Sharon Butala to Erna Paris, from Peter C. Newman to Rawi Hage. An award-winning look at contemporary culture, politics, literature and science.

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Shot in the Arm

Literary Review of Canada

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The Magical History Tour • It was the summer of ’69

and the danger ended —

A Maritime Murder • The final book by Silver Donald Cameron

Je me souviens de quoi? • A fresh take on the beautiful province

The Great Cover-Up • Our pandemic wasteland

On the Banks of the Miramichi • Fire seized upon the town

Paws for Thought • The costs of man’s best friends

The Gloves Come Off

An Arctic Fable • Once upon the melting ice

Fever

Lives Less Ordinary • Peter Mansbridge’s unsung heroes

Her Little Black Book • Barbara Amiel doesn’t give a damn

The Colossus • Notes on our twelfth prime minister

Cobbled Together • Me and the shoemaker

For Your Reference • Citing foreign influence

Graphic Narrative • Drawn-out dramas of the North

In the Eye of the Historian • Three takes on Louis Riel

Comfort Foods • The tragic tale of a cookbook

Front-Line Worker • A family’s postwar trials

Floriography for a Pandemic

Stage Management • Fourteen fixes for a broken theatre

No Country for Young Women • The latest from Ava Homa

Home Is Lagos • Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel

Metaphor Surrendered