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Between Words

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

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

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

Adele Freedman

Adele Freedman is a Seattle-based writer specializing in architectural criticism.

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Three Artists

Two sculptors and a photographer in the early 20th century March 2008
Three women, three special stories, treated by three authors, in two books. One calls itself “the life” of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle as if they were joined at birth and never separated, which, in fact, they hardly ever were. Both born in the American midwest in the 1880s, they met at the Art Institute of…