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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

Ken Winters

Ken Winters has been a music critic since 1956. He was one of the founding triumvirate of editors of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.

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Ken Winters

Hidden Genius

A gifted Chilean pianist added pure gold to the Canadian music scene September 2006
The definitive refutation of that witty and handy but deeply cynical and ultimately inaccurate aphorism “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach” has come to us in John Beckwith’s new book, In Search of Alberto Guerrero. In this articulate, scrupulous, loving portrait of one who could, and did, and…