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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 Parent

David Parent is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Native Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

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Governing a Homeland

The politics of the Métis Nation December 2019
With this publication, the study of Métis governance is finally being elevated out of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and moved into the twenty-first. The authors, Kelly Saunders and Janique Dubois, provide an account that is sorely needed. Building upon Murray Dobbin’s The One-and-a-Half Men, from 1981, and John Weinstein’s Quiet Revolution West…