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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

Leanne Toshiko Simpson

Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a writer living with bipolar disorder. Her work was featured as part of the 2018 Bell Let’s Talk campaign.

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Reading with Mental Illness

For us, the finish line is a mirage May 2019
The setting could be anywhere — exam hall, darkened bedroom, office cubicle, fluorescent ward hallway, family dinner, warm subway grate — but the feeling remains the same. All your physical, mental, and emotional energies have been spent trying to contain something you don’t fully understand, yet somehow you have been confronted by One More Challenge. It…