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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

Thomas Trofimuk

Thomas Trofimuk’s most recent novel, Waiting for Columbus, was published in 2009.

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Thomas Trofimuk

The Other Internment

Retelling the fate of pre–World War One Ukrainian Canadians December 2012
My grandparents came to Canada in the 1920s, around the same time period in which Barbara Sapergia’s new novel, Blood and Salt, is set. My grandfather arrived a couple of years in advance; he homesteaded near High Prairie, and finally settled in Calmar, Alberta. He came to Canada following the same promise of…