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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

Roger Seamon

Roger Seamon is a retired member of the Department of English at the University of British Columbia who has written on literary theory and the philosophy of art. He is an honourary research associate at the University of New Brunswick.

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Making It

A journey from Sarajevo to Montreal through the art world's greed and ambition May 2014
Life Class, Montreal writer Ann Charney’s fourth novel, tells the story of Nerina, a young woman from Sarajevo who, in response to the violence that swept over the disintegrating Yugoslavia, dreams of a life in America. We follow Nerina on her journey from Venice to Montreal within the contemporary high-art world, a mildly unsavory community that she must learn to…