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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

Sonnet L’Abbé

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Sam Solecki

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Tom Jokinen
Issues

January | February 2024

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Illustration by Matthew Daley.

Debatable Material

A century after they gathered

Kyle Wyatt

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Srdjan Vucetic

Grey Area

The Confederates before Confederation

David Marks Shribman

Untoward, the Last Spike

Connecting Canada came at a cost

Charlotte Gray

In the Spotlight

The latest Cundill History Prize finalists

Christopher Moore

Bump in the Night

The disaster that shook Springhill

Paul W. Bennett

By Populist Demand

When urban and rural voters went separate ways

Aaron Wherry

Right Stuff

Essays on conservative thought

Bruce K. Ward

The Librarian

Guy Berthiaume on the shelves

Graham Fraser

Green Guides

Two books to help your garden grow

Barbara Sibbald

Taylor Swift and Other Pawns

Seeking substance in a digital echo chamber

Tara Henley

The Splice of Life

Moviemaking in Winnipeg

Tom Jokinen

In Hot Water

Now that’s the tea

Susan Glickman

Errors and Horrors

David Bergen on times of war

Rohan Maitzen

Picture This

Sean Dixon’s group of seven

Jessie Yang

Abandoning the Map

Two novelists subvert convention

Amanda Perry

Nine Months in Vancouver

Christine Higdon’s latest

Jessica Rose

Blurred Vision

A novel by Anne Michaels

André Forget

Terrors of the Unknown

Adriana Chartrand’s eerie debut

Stacey May Fowles

Line by Line

To assemble an anthology

Bardia Sinaee