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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 Breault

David Breault is a French editor with Public Safety Canada.

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Bilingualism at Fifty

The challenge of translating policy into action July | August 2019
Since the beginning, we have had a language debate in Canada. Although there are 7.2 million francophones in this country (roughly 20 percent of the population), the stakes of this perennial debate can seem rather insignificant for anyone living in a predominantly anglophone region. In such a place, the issue can seem rather one-sided, centred on shallow complaints of…