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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

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A Vast Expanse

The final novel from Marie-Claire Blais March 2026
At the end of The Tempest, Prospero drowns his books and buries his staff after orchestrating a storm to bring his enemies together on an island. He renounces his magic. Like Shakespeare’s metafictional farewell to the power of art, the final entry in Marie-Claire Blais’s Soifs cycle, the last book she completed before her death in…