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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 Sullivan

Jack Sullivan is an associate editor at Texas Monthly.

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Inscrutable Revelations

The latest from John Irving July | August 2026
John Irving’s novels have always landed like incendiaries, albeit leaving smaller craters since the turn of the century. Have any recent literary hot streaks burned brighter than his run of bestsellers between 1978 and 1989? The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Cider House Rules…