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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 Layton

David Layton is a freelance writer. His latest novel, Kaufmann & Sons, will be published by HarperCollins in the spring of 2016.

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Born to Leave

For generations, migration has been a Chinese way of life May 2015
Unless you’re Native American, you came from someplace else. So said U.S. president Barack Obama in a speech on immigration urging his fellow Americans to consider that, when it comes to new immigrants seeking a better life, “most of us used to be them.” This point should be obvious to Canadians who, like Americans, belong to a country that was founded and forged by waves of immigrants arriving on its…