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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

Kenneth Kidd

Kenneth Kidd is a Toronto writer whose work for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star has garnered National Magazine and National Newspaper awards. His memoir, Fishing ’round My Father, was part of the anthology, Casting Quiet Waters: Reflections on Life and Fishing, edited by Jake MacDonald (Greystone, 2014).

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Book Value

Redemption, shame, and the bargain-bin sale of a cultural icon June 2017
In 2016, while researching her new book, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada’s Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational, Elaine Dewar interviewed retired accountant Ronald Scott. Years earlier, while at Ernst & Young, Scott had penned an opinion on the market value of Canada’s most venerated…