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A biannual international literary journal featuring essays and insights from the world’s best-loved writers and fresh, emerging voices.

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Announcing the lineup for our forthcoming Winter issue! Subscribe at the link in our bio, and come December, we'll send you a copy of stunning Brick 118.
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ID: 1-On a yellow background, a list of writers featured in Brick 118.
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#brick118 #brickliteraryjournal #ishionhutchinson #celiapaul #lucieelven #rachidbenzine #kyomaclear #nicholasruddock #clairefoster #nickmakoha #lorraineprice #madhuranand #robertbringhurst #bertrandbickersteth #kateharris #sharonolds by @brickliterary

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"Generally, at the pool, other worries fade, pool-worries rise."

Read Anne Carson's "1-866-MRTR," from Brick 100, at the link in our bio!
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ID: 1-On a blue background, a quote from Carson, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 100.
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#annecarson #nobelprizeinliterature #brickliteraryjournal #brick100 #carson by @brickliterary

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"To look at the world as though, in addition to being very shrewd about it, you see an enchanted world, extraordinary things, odd coincidences—that's what makes life original."

Toni Morrison in Brick 44! Read at the link in our bio.
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ID: 1 and 2-A quote from Morrison, 3-An image of the cover of Brick 44.
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#tonimorrison #language #vernacular #writing #codes #nobelprize by @brickliterary

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Unlocked from the archive, Anne Carson's essay "Simonides and the Art of Negative Attention." Read at the link in our bio.
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ID: 1-On a bluish-purple background, a quote from Anne Carson's essay, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 65/66.
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#annecarson #nobelprize #brickliteraryjournal #literature #poetry #radioplay #friendship #nobelprize #nobelprizeinliterature #nobelprizeinliterature2026 by @brickliterary

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In Brick's current issue, a radio play by today's Nobel prize in literature winner, the inimitable Anne Carson! Read more at the link in our bio.
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ID: 1-On a dark pink background, a quote from Anne Carson's "Oh Buster," 2-An image of the cover of Brick 117.
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#annecarson #nobelprize #brickliteraryjournal #literature #poetry #radioplay #friendship by @brickliterary

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Now unlocked: Dean Rader's ekphrastic poem, in response to Cy Twombly's Fifty Days at Iliam (1978). Read at the link in our bio.
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ID: 1-A quote from Rader's poem, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 105.
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#deanrader #cytwombly #poem #poetry #ekphrastic #brickliteraryjournal #brick105 by @brickliterary

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Christina Sharpe speaks with Steve McQueen about Bass, his installation of sound and light, in Brick's summer issue. Read their conversation at the link in our bio!
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ID: 1-On a dark pink background, a quote from McQueen, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 117.
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#stevemcqueen #christinasharpe #bass #sound #light #installation #artwork #film by @brickliterary

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Now unlocked: Salman Rushdie asks if literature, if anything, is sacred. Read at the link in our bio!
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#salmanrushdie #brickliteraryjournal #brick39 #joyce #beckett #gogol #bulgakov #sacred by @brickliterary

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Knopf Canada editor-in-chief, Lynn Henry, writes about "the page" in Brick's summer issue. Read more at the link in our bio!
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ID: 1-A quote from Henry's essay, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 117
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#lynnhenry #editing #writing #thepage #brickliteraryjournal #brick117 #reading by @brickliterary

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We'll be hanging out all weekend at Word on the Street Toronto! Don't miss the Brick booth, MM5, right by the northeast entrance. On offer: issues aplenty, subscriptions, fabulous merch, and good ole' magazine talk. See you there!
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ID: On a blue background, an announcement about Brick's presence at WOTS.
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#wordonthestreet #wordonthestreettoronto #WOTS #WOTS2026 #brickliteraryjournal #magazine #bookfair by @brickliterary

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"Novels are some of the most fine-grained and exhilarating repositories of people’s thinking that we can be ignorant alongside."

Merve Emre speaks with @pholdengraber in Brick 112. Read more at the link in our bio!
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ID: 1-On a brown background, a quote from Emre, 2-An image of the cover of Brick 112.
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#merveemre #criticism #virginiawoolf #mrsdalloway #paulhodengraber #brickliteraryjournal #annotation #interview #conversation #brick112 by @brickliterary

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