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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

Janet Hepburn

Janet Hepburn lives in Port Dover, Ontario. Her novel, Flee, Fly, Flown, was published in March 2013 with Second Story Press.

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The Freedom of Alzheimer’s

A daughter discovers the surprising joy of dementia May 2015
The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother and Me is a lyrical memoir—a hands-on, all-in, profoundly sensitive story that recounts Cathie Borrie’s thoughts and emotions as she cares for her mother, Jo, through her last years with Alzheimer’s. Jo, widowed, is in her mid eighties and is able to live alone in her own home thanks only to daily visits from…