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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

Robert Bothwell

Robert Bothwell teaches Canadian foreign relations at the University of Toronto, and has written on Canada’s participation in the British Empire.

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Robert Bothwell

Breaking the Ties

Historical Glimpses at Canada’s gradual disengagement from Britain April 2005
The University of British Columbia Press has celebrated the new year 2005 with the production of a collection of essays entitled Canada and the End of Empire, edited by a senior Canadian historian, Phillip Buckner. Throughout most of the period since the 1950s, that title would have been considered a commonplace: empires have been the stuff of fulmination for the agitated…