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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

Sheldon Goldfarb

Sheldon Goldfarb works as the archivist for the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia.

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Those who survived maritime disaster September 2025
Just after midnight on May 29, 1914, the Empress of Ireland sank in the St. Lawrence River, with a loss of 836 passengers, four more than had died on the Titanic two years earlier. Almost everyone has heard of the Titanic, but how many have heard of the Empress of Ireland…