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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

Peter Such

Peter Such wrote an award-winning documentary film, Free Dive, about disabled divers. His latest novel is Earthbaby (Ekstasis, 2005), much of which takes place on a space station.

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Deep-Sea Utopias

Recalling a romantic era of ocean exploration and colonization May 2005
Dr. Joe MacInnis’s Breathing Underwater is a double feature from the age of Aquarius. We get not only the Ethos of an Era (the 1960s bubbling with adventurism and idealism), but also the Eros of Ether (a personal account of the rapture of the deep). While Marshall McLuhan was writing about the cultural and psychological effects of new…