Brick 80

Only in the night gardens of our silent movie dreams do our starved bodies demand restitution for all the ways they have been cheated or denied.
                                                                          — George Toles

In this issue:

• Tomas Tranströmer’s breathing room
• Mavis Gallant: An in-depth interview with Stéphan Bureau
• Orhan Pamuk on the Brothers K
• New poetry from Sharon Olds and Don McKay
• Barbara Gowdy talks to Ramona Koval
• Gil Adamson in discussion with Michael Ondaatje
• Graham Greene’s letters
• Carmen Aguirre slips over the border
• Baziju in the Adelaide Hills
• New fiction from Susan Choi
• Guy Maddin and George Toles on the magic of silent film
• Robin Benger and Charlie Austin on the divine Murali
• Eleni Sikelianos eyes Creeley and Duncan
• Jim Harrison on the souls of dogs
• A story by Gil Adamson
• Viktor Nekrasov at home with Mikhail Bulgakov
• Julie Vandervoort’s fugal state
• John Berger on the peril of erasing the past
• Anton Chekhov remembered by Dr. Gregory Altschuller
   

Plus:

A special eight-page photographic insert by Jonathan Luckhurst

Photos and illustrations by:

Daryl Vocat, Tanja-Tiziana, Julie Liger Belair, Martin Helmut Reis, David Hlynsky, Tony Calzetta, Frédéric Raevens, Adam L. Weintraub, John Berger, Marcin Porebski, Laszlo Szilvassy, and Rutu Modan