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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

Geoff Smith

Geoff Smith taught courses in American history and sport sociology at Queen’s University for nearly 40 years. He was protocol officer in charge of the Soviet sailing delegation at the Montreal (Kingston) Olympics in 1976.

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Geoff Smith

An Activist’s Angry Disposition

Will the Vancouver Olympics be contributing to a soiled history? January–February 2009
The motto of author Christopher Shaw’s in-laws is vincit veritas, “truth prevails,” and from his first line of text, this David from British Columbia seeks to strip away the false pretenses that accompanied Goliath Vancouver’s successful bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. An ophthalmologist at the University of British Columbia, in Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic …