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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

Sarah Ellis

Sarah Ellis has published twenty-five books for children and young adults, including As Glenn as Can Be.

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Sarah Ellis

Variations

Not so black and white April 2022
For the first thirty years of my life as a writer, I had a day job as a librarian. The public library proved to be an ideal side hustle because it put me in contact with dozens of people each week: the young, the old, the jaunty, the grumpy, the loopy, the lonely, the clever, and the…