An excerpt from César Aira's The Famous Musician, now unlocked from Brick 110. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/10334...

Behold our new Summer issue! Featuring Anne Carson, Salman Rushdie, Christina Sharpe, Steve McQueen, Catherine Leroux, Giada Scodellaro, and so many more. Plus a series of current obsessions by twenty-four writers, including Zadie Smith, John Keene, and Lydia Davis. brickmag.com/product/bric...

Zadie Smith on Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, George Eliot and more. brickmag.com/in-conversat...

From @janaprikryl.bsky.social's poem "Cliff Notes," featured in the Winter 2026 issue. brickmag.com/cliff-notes/

Announcing the lineup for our forthcoming Summer issue! Brick 117 features a special series: writers on their literary obsessions. Subscribe today and receive the issue, with work by these writers and more! brickmag.com/subscribe/

Unlocked from the archive: two poems by Pablo Neruda! ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83505...

Pico Iyer on John Fowles and the question of influence in Brick 75. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85290...

Congratulations to Karen Solie for winning the Windham-Campbell prize! To celebrate, we're unlocking two poems by Solie from Brick 103. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83509...

Michael Ondaatje shares a few words of love for Coach House Books. brickmag.com/coach-house-...

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

Happy national poetry month! Now up on the Brick podcast: Jana Prikryl reading her poem "Cliff Notes" from our Winter issue. open.spotify.com/episode/5X3b...

"The telling of a tale is an exaggeration in itself. We all know that." W. G. Sebald in Brick 59. brickmag.com/an-interview...

Kate Briggs speaks with Madhur Anand about translation, writing, her novel The Long Form (@dorothyproject.bsky.social) and more in Brick's Winter issue. Read their conversation: brickmag.com/novel-forms-...

"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. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85288...

"Shadow Price," a poem by Farah Ghafoor from Brick 115. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/12193...

Madhur Anand and Kate Briggs in conversation in Brick 116. brickmag.com/novel-forms-...

🎨 Beautiful illustrations of Vancouver's historic Chinatown by Canadian artist @donnaseto.bsky.social in @brickliterary.bsky.social Summer 2025! 👀 Explore the complete Brick archive on Exact Editions.

"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. brickmag.com/an-interview...

"A Hotel" by Lisa Robertson, now unlocked from Brick 71. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85294...

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. brickmag.com/novel-forms-...

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. awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Conf...

"'The classics can console. But not enough'" Ishion Hutchinson in Brick 109, now unlocked. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/10071...

"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...

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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/