"The voluble son became quieter. The quiet son became more voluble. There is no forecasting anything." Kyo Maclear in Brick 114. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/11910...

"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. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85298...

"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. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85285...

Now unlocked from Brick 105: Jenny Erpenbeck's "Homesick for Sadness," translated from the German by Kurt Beals. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/88592...

"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. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85283...

From Sebastian Wilfredo Moya's "The Cubans" in Brick's winter issue. brickmag.com/the-cubans/

"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. brickmag.com/family-life-...

"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. brickmag.com/a-conversati...

A Monday morning poem by Ko Un, from Brick 78. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85287...

Until January 31, buy a one- or two-year subscription and save $5 with code thegiftofbrick !

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

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! Read here: brickmag.com/a-conversati...

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.

Lydia Davis's "Family Life at Clinton Street." This and more in Brick's winter issue! brickmag.com/family-life-...

I have witnessed how the young and not-so-young of my native Venezuela flee en masse their homeland, which has become a place of “insile”—the condition of feeling exiled within one’s own country. Zoe Valery writes about migration from Venezuela in Brick's winter issue. brickmag.com/vanishing-ti...

"For Brown, utopia is an acknowledgment that we, in our current moment, “cannot fully know anything.” What we do know is that the present is, to put it mildly, wholly unsatisfactory." Rinaldo Walcott on Sam Cooke and the Black utopic in Brick's winter issue. lithub.com/a-practice-o...

Don't miss two poems by Diane Seuss from Brick's winter issue. Read today on the Brick website! brickmag.com/two-poems-3/

"When I write, I try not to put messages in but to say, Are we here or are we there?" Tsitsi Dangarembga speaks with Madeleine Thien in Brick 91. brickmag.com/an-interview...

There's still time to gift a Brick subscription this holiday season! Start with gorgeous Brick 116, featuring Lydia Davis, Cristina Rivera Garza, Solvej Balle, Rinaldo Walcott, Madeleine Thien, Diane Seuss, and so many more! Save $5 with code THEGIFTOFBRICK. brickmag.com/subscribe/

Now on the Brick Podcast: Lucy Ives reads an except of her essay “The End” from Brick 114. Stream on Apple Music or Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/7CWN...

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Now live on the Brick Podcast: Diane Seuss reads two poems from Brick's winter issue. Stream on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Be sure to subscribe for future episodes! open.spotify.com/episode/6KoP...

Just a few more days until the Brick 116 launch! On Monday, December 8, at Flying Books, join us in celebrating the winter issue. There will be readings from Angelo Santos and Josiah Nelson, plus drinks and snacks. RSVP: simpli.events/e/brick116

New poems by Diane Seuss from our forthcoming winter issue! Read on more our website, and subscribe to receive Brick 116 this month. brickmag.com/two-poems-3/

One has to scratch like a squirrel up a tree trunk. One has to learn to be wounded. One has to learn to be rejected; and one has to learn to write quickly and briefly for periodicals. Cynthia Ozick in Brick 46. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85316...

’Tis the season to give the gift of Brick! Send the finest in contemporary writing—essays, fiction, interviews, and poetry—for your loved ones to enjoy year-round. Save $5 on all one- and two-year gift subscriptions with code THEGIFTOFBRICK. brickmag.com/subscribe/

Save the date 📣 On Monday, December 8, at Flying Books, join us in celebrating the launch of Brick 116. There will be readings from Angelo Santos and Josiah Nelson, plus refreshments! RSVP here: simpli.events/e/brick116

Two poems by Balam Rodrigo, translated from the Spanish by Dan Bellm, now available to read on the Brick website! brickmag.com/two-poems-2/

Our beautiful winter issue is coming soon! Featuring work by Lydia Davis, Solvej Balle, Cristina Rivera Garza, Madeleine Thien, Rinaldo Walcott, Kate Briggs, Diane Seuss, and so much more. Subscribe: brickmag.com/subscribe/ Order your copy: brickmag.com/product/bric...

Three poems by Jane Hirshfield from Brick 96, now unlocked. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83503...

“What cannot be said, can be not said!” This gnomic observation captures very precisely his aim in the Tractatus. It is both the fundamental aspiration of the project and its engine. Jan Zwicky on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, from Brick 112. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/11381...

A mid-week poem by Chimwemwe Undi. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/90887...

Behold the lineup for our forthcoming Winter issue! Brick 116 traverses borders, timelines, languages, and family ties. Subscribe today and this issue, with work by these fourteen writers and more, at your doorstep in December. brickmag.com/subscribe/

Now online, Sheung-King's "Synthetic Strokes: Not Writing from 2021 to 2024." brickmag.com/synthetic-st...

Eden Robinson's "Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted" from Brick 107. brickmag.com/writing-prom...

This weekend we'll be at Toronto's Word on the Street! Locale: David Pecaut Square, 215 King Street W. You can find the Brick booth by the northwest entrance (right off King Street). We'll be there selling Bricks and subscriptions, talking literature, and embracing early autumn days.

"You’re working so slowly and tentatively that the large questions often come by accident." Colm Tóibín speaks with Eleanor Wachtel about his life and work in Brick's summer issue. brickmag.com/an-interview...

This Sunday, Sept 21, Brick will be setting up shop at the Brooklyn Book Festival! Come say hi and discover new and old Bricks + magnificent, mag-lovers' merch.

The final episode of this season of Writer to Writer is out today. A conversation between Amitava Kumar and Teju Cole, offering a singular inside look at how they frame, and live, artistic practice. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/3cnI...

"Am I original and contemporary or just good fun late at night?" Deborah Levy in Brick 114, now unlocked! ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/11910...

Listen today! Kyo Maclear and Brandon Shimoda bond over their quests to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self in this new episode of Brick's Writer to Writer series. Available wherever you stream. open.spotify.com/episode/5CiV...

"Literature is a meditation of life, and it's born of life. it's not divorced from it." Now unlocked: an interview with Anita Desai from Brick 56. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85308...

On Sunday, we'll be at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. Come by the Brick table 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. for subscriptions, back issues, merch, and chat. Hope to see you there!

"I suppose part of the deal of the novel is that it better be very interesting, even if it’s just that business of Jim seeing Eilis on a beach and saying nothing to her." Colm Tóibín in Brick 115. brickmag.com/an-interview...

Now streaming on the Brick Podcast: a conversation between Sheila Heti and Vivian Gornick. Listen today on Spotify or Apple Podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/2xDd...

Special offer! For a limited time only: Get a one-year subscription to both Brick and The Capilano Review at 10% off. That's four issues, a magazine for every season: TCR has you covered fall and spring and Brick will keep you company winter and summer. brickmag.com/buy/

"Doubtless, the writer one ends up becoming, is in part, the fruit of chance encounters. The old adage says it well: we are who we frequent." Gail Scott on language and life in Montreal. Now unlocked from Brick 59. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85398...

"Life is language, I wanted to say. Only problem: / it isn’t." Begin your week with a poem by Robert Bringhurst, from Brick 111. brickmag.com/life-poem/

"I often think his true form is the note scribbled on a scrap of paper or a napkin, in a diary, or in the margins of a book." Darcy Ballantyne on her father Austin Clarke, featured in Brick's summer issue. lithub.com/with-love-da...

Madeleine Thien interviews Eleanor Wachtel about her audio life: thirty-three years hosting Writers & Company, where she spoke with writers from Jamaica Kincaid to Oliver Sacks, Kazuo Ishiguro to Philip Roth, Michael Ondaatje to Sophie Calle, and so many more. brickmag.com/the-art-of-t...