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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

Alma Lee

Alma Lee is a founder and former artistic director of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival.

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A Cross-Country Canon

Richler’s literary journey documents Canlit’s strides December 2006
It was inevitable that This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada would evoke memories of Margaret Atwood’s Survival. Noah Richler’s observations about the contemporary fabric of literary Canada are an impressive update on how far we have come since Survival’s publication in 1972. Richler’s quest to find Canada through its literary mythology could be described as…