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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

David Arnason

David Arnason is a Winnipeg writer who teaches at the University of Manitoba. His novel Baldur’s Song: A Saga was published by Turnstone Press in 2010.

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David Arnason

A Gem Worth Waiting For

An Icelandic-Canadian novel appears in English after 110 years May 2010
There is a lovely spot in Manitoba where a small stream runs through a gentle rise on the prairie. There, at the site of his homestead, the author Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason is commemorated with a plaque dedicated to him by the Icelandic-Canadian community in Manitoba. Not many Canadian writers have their home places marked as historic sites…