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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

Richard Gwyn

Richard Gwyn wrote a column on national and international affairs for the Toronto Star. He was the author of numerous books, including Nationalism without Walls: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian; John A: The Man Who Made Us; and Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times.

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Surviving Survivalism

Canada has moved into a new kind of sovereignty; less fretful, more laid-back December 2004
Some time in the last half dozen years, Canadians decided that we had made it as a country. No audible click of consciousness-raising occurred, but by one of the mysterious processes of collective decision making that takes place from time to time in democracies, we simply decided that as a country, a nation-state, a political…