From the archives

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

Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and I Share Our Birthday Cake and Don’t Talk about the Bullet

A poem.

Em Dial

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Em Dial

Em Dial won the Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award in 2019 and the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award in 2020. She has also been selected as a 2022 Kundiman Fellow.

Nicholas Metivier Gallery's advertisement for its Tony Scherman Drawings exhibit and book, on view now through October 9th, 2026. Publication now available with an essay by Ihor Holubizsky. Gallery located at 109 Richmond Street East, Toronto, Ontario.