Unlocked from the archive: two poems by Pablo Neruda!

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Pico Iyer on John Fowles and the question of influence in Brick 75.

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Congratulations to Karen Solie for winning the Windham-Campbell prize! To celebrate, we're unlocking two poems by Solie from Brick 103.

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Michael Ondaatje shares a few words of love for Coach House Books.

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The most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings since 1977.

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Happy national poetry month! Now up on the Brick podcast: Jana Prikryl reading her poem "Cliff Notes" from our Winter issue.

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An Interview with W. G. Sebald | Brick This conversation was part of a series called The Writer, The Work, hosted by the PEN American Center. It took place in New York City on July 10, 1997, when the only book of W. G. Sebald’s in English…

"The telling of a tale is an exaggeration in itself. We all know that."

W. G. Sebald in Brick 59.

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Kate Briggs speaks with Madhur Anand about translation, writing, her novel The Long Form (@dorothyproject.bsky.social) and more in Brick's Winter issue.

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"I described Roth as someone whose laundry lists would be worth reading."

Michael Hofmann on his life translating Joseph Roth. Now unlocked from Brick 77.

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"Shadow Price," a poem by Farah Ghafoor from Brick 115.

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Madhur Anand and Kate Briggs in conversation in Brick 116.

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🎨 Beautiful illustrations of Vancouver's historic Chinatown by Canadian artist @donnaseto.bsky.social in @brickliterary.bsky.social Summer 2025!

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An Interview with Sigrid Nunez | Brick | Brick A version of this conversation between Sigrid Nunez and Eleanor Wachtel was broadcast on Writers & Company on CBC Radio One in 2021, produced by Sandra Rabinovitch.

"As you say, a lot of first books are autobiographical because the writer seems to need to get something out of the way before she can go on to write other things. And I was certainly one of those writers."

An interview with Sigrid Nunez from Brick 108, now unlocked.

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"A Hotel" by Lisa Robertson, now unlocked from Brick 71.

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Translation is a way of giving yourself permission to write in ways that perhaps you wouldn’t normally. Not only that: It requires this of you..."

In Brick's Winter issue, Kate Briggs speaks with Madhur Anand about writing and translation.

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We're heading to Baltimore for this year's AWP Conference and Bookfair! We'll be at booth T855 with subscription deals and back issues, talking all things Brick. See you there!

With thanks to the Canada Council for their support.

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"'The classics can console. But not enough'"

Ishion Hutchinson in Brick 109, now unlocked.

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"The voluble son became quieter. The quiet son became more voluble. There is no forecasting anything."

Kyo Maclear in Brick 114.

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"Their sleep is a system of contradictions curving in and out of impossibility without ever arriving at refutation..."

Now unlocked from Brick 67: Anne Carson on sleep in Homer's Odyssey.

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"Like all great novels, The Brothers Karamazov had two instant and opposite effects on me: it made me feel as if I was not alone in the world, but it also made me feel helpless and cut off from all others."

Orhan Pamuk on Dostoevsky in Brick 80.

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Now unlocked from Brick 105: Jenny Erpenbeck's "Homesick for Sadness," translated from the German by Kurt Beals.

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"You can have a soul if you want but it's easy to lose it."

Jim Harrison on food, finance, and spirit: now unlocked from Brick 82.

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From Sebastian Wilfredo Moya's "The Cubans" in Brick's winter issue.

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Family Life at Clinton Street | Brick The wooden Chinese junk, with its carved crew, used to sit on a small table in Grandfather’s bedroom, before his death. It had been a gift from his friend Burlingame when they were both young.

"Father preferred to avoid scenes. When the strife between Mother and Grandmother became too prolonged, he would say, 'Let us have peace.'"

Lydia Davis in Brick's winter issue.

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"It’s not just that I say what happened, it’s that I have to figure out what matters to me about what happened and all the layers of what happened."

Leslie Jamison in conversation with Marni Jackson.

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A Monday morning poem by Ko Un, from Brick 78.

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Zoe Valery writes about Gego's kinetic art, Venezuela, border walls, and vanishing time in Brick's winter issue.

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Leslie Jamison talks to Marni Jackson about the ethical failures of skepticism, originality in prose, motherhood's impacts on writing, and more in this Brick online feature!

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We're excited to share this year's nominations for the 2026 Pushcart Prize.

Order copies of Brick 115 and 116 to read this stellar collection of non-fiction and poetry that crosses borders, family dynamics, and cultural histories.