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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

J.R. Miller

J.R. Miller wrote Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History and other books. He was a long-time professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.

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J.R. Miller

No Genocide

It’s not the right word for the history books October 2019
Editor’s Note: This is one of two related pieces in the October 2019 issue. The Hon. Harry S. LaForme offers a counterargument with “Yes, Genocide.” Only four years ago, a ­tremendous change occurred in how many non-Indigenous Canadians perceive Indigenous people. The chief justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, used the phrase “cultural genocide” in late May 2015 to describe a number of government…