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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

Steven P. Chatfield

Steven P. Chatfield researches regeneration in a variety of agricultural and agro-forestry crops at the University of Toronto. He has also worked in plant agriculture at the University of Guelph and at the International Agricultural Research Centre in the United Kingdom.

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Steven P. Chatfield

Down on the Farm

Two writers argue with passion for the virtues of rural living March 2010
What is the real value of a farm? We live in a cult of measurement. As the world’s population expands and raw materials and fossil fuels dwindle, there is an increasing need to justify how we use our limited resources. Governments responsible for resource allocation have come to rely on the use of measurements of efficiency in their decision…