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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

Love, the love is always

there, but you always wonder

if the life is real as the flesh

of your wife’s soft shoulder

as she sleeps, or if you

have slipped on her slender

hip into a dream as it rises

like the dark green hill

in a...

Daniel Goodwin is the author of  The Great Goldbergs and other books.

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