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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

Jonathan Holslag

Jonathan Holslag is the head of research at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies and the author of China and India: Prospects for Peace, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

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Jonathan Holslag

The Myth of Chindia

Rising regional tensions undermine a new book’s rosy forecast for Asia January–February 2010
Whether or not China and India succeed in the arduous task of strengthening national unity, the development of Asia’s two giants will do much to determine the world’s outlook in this century. In Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century, University of Toronto economist Wendy Dobson argues that both giants still face difficult…