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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 Warnica

Richard Warnica is a reporter and editor with the Toronto Star.

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Abstract Value

Beholding Rothko in Paris September 2024
Exhibiting such a broad, thorough, and representative set of works is the fulfillment of a long-standing personal wish.— Bernard Arnault Something happens to artists at a certain point — when their work starts selling above an unearthly, somewhat ephemeral line. The individual works themselves cease to be genius (or middling, experimental, or fully…