Skip to content

From the archives

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

Barbara Klunder

Barbara Klunder has written and illustrated her own set of modern classics with Groundwood Books: Other Goose: Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times (2007), and also a Toronto Island illustrated alphabet book. She is now working on a book of limericks. In 2009, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Art Directors’ Club of Canada.

Articles by
Barbara Klunder

Go Ask Alice

Lewis Carroll’s classic passes through many artists’ looking-glasses this season May 2010
Classics. It’s not why we revisit them, but how. The huge collective agreement about what evokes our amazement and amusement, tested in every generation, is what distills them into masterpieces. The urge to revisit them is so that we can put our own time’s imprint upon them. We have new Alice in Wonderland book versions this…