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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

Shiri Pasternak

Shiri Pasternak is a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University and an organizer with several organizations, including as an ally in the Defenders of the Land network. Her work can be found at www.shiripasternak.com.

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Don’t Call It a Comeback

While Indigenous people keep resisting assimiliation, it’s Canada that needs to catch up January | February 2015
The response to the Idle No More Movement has generally wavered between the dismissive and the laudatory. In the latter group, thinkers and writers have emerged to say that things are different now, potentially better. We are changing. Among these forecasters are Bob Rae, Bill Gallagher, Ken Coates, Douglas Bland, Lloyd Axworthy and now John Ralston…