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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

May 2020

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Moira MacDougall Cover poetry adapted from Vanishing Acts, by Moira MacDougall.

Mapping What Ails Us

Intimidation and lies just spread

Kyle Wyatt

Quarantine Diaries

One day more, then another

Andrew Benjamin Bricker

The Ancient Port

And there was a mighty tempest

Spencer Morrison

Andrà Tutto Bene

When Italy went quiet

Jeannie Marshall

Visions of a Crisis

Difficult days in Ecuador

Kimberley Brown

Through the Fog

Turning to Rebecca Solnit in times of trouble

Geoff Martin

Until We Meet Again

A journey there and back

Rose Hendrie

Alone Time

A nation in isolation

Mark Kingwell

Food for Thought

Eight billion mouths and counting

Viviane Fairbank

Balance the Books

The case for Canadian publishing

Victor Rabinovitch

Zoom with a View

The inner lives of co-workers

Eric Johnson

The Long Change

Hockey’s unassuming hero

Jeff Costen

Man of the Miramichi

A new collection by David Adams Richards

Keith Garebian

Faithful Translation?

Cohen takes on Lorca

Richard Sanger

Portrait of a Glass Artist

Piecing together a history

Carol Bishop-Gwyn

Coming Home to Roost

The cracks in everyday lives

Kelli Deeth

These Are Their Stories

A striking debut

Bryn Turnbull

Vanguard

Was the world ready for a book like this?

Kelly S. Thompson