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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

Sonnet L’Abbé

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Sam Solecki

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Tom Jokinen
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Elspeth Cameron

Elspeth Cameron is a professor of English and Canadian Studies at Brock University. She has won numerous awards for her studies of Canadian cultural figures, and will publish a biography of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle in 2007.

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Elspeth Cameron

Challenging “Battered Woman Syndrome”

A researcher and practitioner says feminism put up a smokescreen around the problem January–February 2007
I opened Rethinking Domestic Violence with great interest. More than ten years ago I documented my own departure from an abusive marriage into a lesbian relationship in my memoir No Previous Experience. At that time I read about domestic abuse for the first time—notably Lenore Walker’s The Battered Woman …

Scientist of the Human Heart

Atwood’s disconcerting strength comes from relentless observation and dissection June 2006
The Tent s Margaret Atwood’s third book of short prose pieces that might be called prose poems, sketches or musings. As in Murder in the Dark (1983) and Good Bones (1992), Atwood collects a number of disparate short writings—many of which have appeared in journals or elsewhere. Even at her most tentative and…