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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

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Charlotte’s Web

Sean Michaels gets technical March 2024
Anxieties about artificial intelligence replacing writers clearly inspired Do You Remember Being Born?, the latest by Sean Michaels, whose debut novel, Us Conductors, won the 2014 Giller Prize. Rather than building a story around a new author contending with this emerging threat, Michaels centres his tale on an established poet working with the…