Brick 115 | Summer 2025

Brick is an international literary journal published twice a year out of Toronto.

With a focus on literary non-fiction—and a willingness to stray when our hearts are taken—the magazine prizes the personal voice and celebrates life, art, and the written word with the most invigorating and challenging essays, interviews, translations, memoirs, belles lettres, and unusual musings we can get our hands on. 

Each issue brings new essays and insights from the world’s best-loved writers and introduces fresh, emerging voices from all over. Since its inception, Brick has featured such heavyweights as John Berger, Anne Carson, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Eden Robinson, Jenny Erpenbeck, Rawi Hage, and Ocean Vuong. As much a feast for the eyes as it is for the mind, Brick regularly features art and photographic inserts and has been widely praised for its design. Every six months, we are building an artifact—a volume to read and keep and return to.

In this issue:

• Melissa Febos’s dry season
• Darran Anderson repels ghosts
• Eleanor Wachtel interviews Colm Tóibín
• Sadiqa de Meijer maps an elliptical city
• Darcy Ballantyne deciphers Austin Clarke’s handwriting
• Anne de Marcken puts grief on the windowsill
• Lida Nosrati’s food fractals
• Ben Ratliff runs the song
• Greg Hollingshead records his dreams
• Sheung-King’s reasons for not writing
• Julio Cortázar in letters
• Poetry by Balam Rodrigo, Farah Ghafoor, Rodrigo Rojas, Song-Hi Ong, and Ana Rodriguez Machado
• Fiction by Kathryn Scanlan
• Illustrations by Donna Seto

Paperback | 152 pages | 8" x 9"