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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

Asa McKercher

Asa McKercher is the Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-US Relations at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at St. Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia.

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King Without a Crown

Essays on a defining prime minister May 2026
In June 2024, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was unveiled in Calgary, joining other monuments to the former British prime minister in Halifax, Toronto, and Edmonton. In Quebec City, meanwhile, a bust of Churchill squares off against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president who met his counterpart for two wartime conferences held at the Château Frontenac and the…