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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

Jack Chambers

Jack Chambers taught at the University of Toronto and wrote A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington.

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Rye Observations

What we talk about when we talk about Holden January | February 2026
It was an accident. I had no intention of reading The Catcher in the Rye again, let alone last summer. It came about because my wife and our adult children got this quaint notion about decluttering the bookshelves at our cottage. The question became: “Prize it or pitch it?” One of the many decisions I faced was over a 1999 paperback of Salinger: A Biography…