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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

Denise Chong

Denise Chong’s latest book, Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship, was published in 2009.

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Denise Chong

Searching for Race-Neutral Ground

An author declares the equality hopes of the Charter a promise not met April 2007
Recently I spent a long, at times tedious, day deliberating among some one hundred people about how history is taught and learned in Canada. I thought the evening boded well, however, when someone I had heretofore known only from afar asked if he might take the seat at dinner beside me. Quite apart from his being a perfect gentleman—a woman notices this—I had admired his respect for the opinions and experiences of…