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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

November 2023

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Illustration by Blair Kelly.

Fowl Lines

Speaking of speakers

Kyle Wyatt

The Influencers

A dual biography from Charlotte Gray

David Marks Shribman

Ken and Company

Fast times at Etobicoke Collegiate

Katherine Ashenburg

Boiling Point

Of treaty rights and fisheries

Jenn Thornhill Verma

A Piggy Bank Puzzle

Can redistributing dollars work?

Dan Dunsky

The Bélangers

An oral history of a Montreal gang

Amanda Perry

Grey Matter

How do you do, fellow kids?

Paul W. Bennett

Past Imperfect

J. L. Granatstein’s prescient warning

Patrice Dutil

To Bespeak a Monument

Our relations and commemorations

Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Doomed Passage

New takes on a lost explorer

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Black Boys of Summer

On the field and in the history books

Michael Taube

Between Texts

Notes on literary translation

Claire Foster

Picture Book

Glimpses of the Black Star Collection

Keith Garebian

Freedom in Verse

Why I took up poetry

Cecily Ross

Sibling Rivalry

The latest from Michael Crummey

Brad Dunne

A Zigzagging Quest

Jamieson Findlay’s poignant page-turner

Alexander Sallas

Where There’s Smoke

A fiery debut by Tomas Hachard

Kayla Penteliuk

An East End Story

Elizabeth Ruth’s new novel

Véronique Darwin

Her Mountie and Her Keyboard

In Alberta with Marina Endicott

David Staines

A Bermuda Short

Publishing a forgotten manuscript

Duncan McDowall