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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

Sonnet L’Abbé

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Sam Solecki

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Tom Jokinen
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Only Disconnect

A new book chronicles one man’s struggle to get back inside his own head November 2014
About this time last year, I lived one of the stranger episodes in my 33 years. There I was, a recently graduated English PhD, quietly plying my trade in a classroom at the University of Toronto. Sitting in my office one day, I got a call from CBC Radio, asking me if I would participate in the inaugural Q …

Book Is Here

A challenging polemic pits print against on-screen reading January–February 2013
Right now you are reading, and I am writing. And whether you are reading my words on paper or on a screen, you are probably more aware of your chosen medium—more attuned to its characteristics—than the reader of almost any previous generation. Living as we do in a moment of transition, from what Adriaan van der Weel calls “the Order of the Book” to some new order (or disorder) of the…