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.

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"'The classics can console. But not enough'"

Ishion Hutchinson in Brick 109, now unlocked.

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"The voluble son became quieter. The quiet son became more voluble. There is no forecasting anything."

Kyo Maclear in Brick 114.

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"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.

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"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.

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Now unlocked from Brick 105: Jenny Erpenbeck's "Homesick for Sadness," translated from the German by Kurt Beals.

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"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.

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From Sebastian Wilfredo Moya's "The Cubans" in Brick's winter issue.

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Family Life at Clinton Street | Brick The wooden Chinese junk, with its carved crew, used to sit on a small table in Grandfather’s bedroom, before his death. It had been a gift from his friend Burlingame when they were both young.

"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.

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"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.

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A Monday morning poem by Ko Un, from Brick 78.

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

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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!

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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.

Family Life at Clinton Street | Brick The wooden Chinese junk, with its carved crew, used to sit on a small table in Grandfather’s bedroom, before his death. It had been a gift from his friend Burlingame when they were both young.

Lydia Davis's "Family Life at Clinton Street." This and more in Brick's winter issue!

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Vanishing Time: Portable Country | Brick I. The Drain Vanishing Time (VT) = seventeen years My father went to an art house cinema in Caracas that used to be teeming with young people. I wonder if that is what he sought there…

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.

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A Practice of Speculative Imaginings: On Sam Cooke and the Art of Utopia Sometimes in a moment of overwhelming emotion you hear a song. You finally hear it. You don’t just get the meaning of the lyrics, or feel the beats and the rhythm, but you hear the unutterable in t…

"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.

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

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"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.

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Now on the Brick Podcast: Lucy Ives reads an except of her essay “The End” from Brick 114. Stream on Apple Music or Spotify!

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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!

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Brick 116 Launch | Simpli Events 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! Flying Books, 784 College Street...

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.

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

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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.

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