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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

Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings is the author of the Detective Murdoch and Paradise Café series.

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Figure of Speeches

What Arthur Meighen thought of William Shakespeare July | August 2026
Perhaps we have all had the experience of a book coming into our lives that rearranges the furniture. The last time this happened to me, it was over a surprising find. The Greatest Englishman of History is a transcription of an address delivered to the Canadian Club of Toronto in 1936. The speaker was Arthur…