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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

Kirsteen MacLeod

Kirsteen MacLeod is a former Al Purdy A-frame Association writer-in-residence.

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Letter to a Fallen Angel

July–August 2013
  It’s you I think of, Cassiel, as I look down from the 25th floor in my white hotel bathrobe, feet resting on the window, listening to Casals, who has to be your brother-angel — fallen to earth with his cello.   Below, my city’s a reef: calcified light towers, red train tracks that undulate, white amoebas that pulse along the expressway to the dark water’s…