"I am not trying to understand. I am trying to be changed." Anne de Marcken in Brick 115. reader.exacteditions.com/issues/12193...
Andre Bagoo looks back on earthly attachments in Brick 108. "The repetition of the word shade, the chain of hissing sibilants, the litany of nouns, adverbs, and definitive articles—all of it felt like some hypnotic ritual I was being indoctrinated into." lithub.com/my-hundred-y...
"But I think there is something I'm after, something much deeper, some sort of an ecstasy of truth, something where we step beyond ourselves." Werner Herzog in Brick 82. reader.exacteditions.com/issues/85283...
"Something Else is Created" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Read in Brick 81. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/85284...
Jeannie Marshall on Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson. Read in Brick 91. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/83498...
In Brick's Summer issue, Amitava Kumar and twenty-three other writers dish on their current obsessions. brickmag.com/obsessions/
"From The Dry Season" by Melissa Febos, now unlocked from Brick 115. ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/12193...
Coming up on Monday, June 8! Join us to celebrate the launch of Brick 117. Eleanor Wachtel will be hosting. There will be readings from Karen Solie, Janika Oza, and Lynn Henry, plus drinks and snacks! RSVP: simpli.events/e/brick117
Three letters by Julio Cortázar, translated by Anne McLean in Brick 115. brickmag.com/three-letters/
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...
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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/
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...
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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...
An Interview with W. G. Sebald | Brick
This conversation was part of a series called The Writer, The Work, hosted by the PEN American Center. It took place in New York City on July 10, 1997, when the only book of W. G. Sebald’s in English…
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