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Swisher, Atwood, Levy, Loach
and other flotsam and jetsam of April
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Lydia Perovic
Things I know at 50
At the beginning of this month, to my astonishment, I turned 50. Here are a few things I picked on the way here: Don’t presume there will be an endless…
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Two Torontos and one Montreal
There are two Toronto-themed painting exhibitions in town at the moment: Brian Harvey at the Abbozzo Gallery on 401 Richmond, and across town, on 830 St…
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Once more on liberals and violence
Pavese, Tabucchi, Ginzburg
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Illiberals be illiberaling
And a whirlwind weekend in Montreal
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March 2024

Are lives of Canadians worthy of literature?
The essay that follows is scheduled to appear in a Canadian literary journal at some point this year, but the editorial ways of print are slow and…
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Two Vickies against the male gaze
plus a Toronto gallery called Franz Kaka
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A Winterreise off the beaten track. Off-off.
Toronto Mendelssohn Singers on form
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Wednesday at the galleries: the Distillery District
& some gorgeous fat ladies
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That previous war in Eastern Europe
Some of us got cheated out of the "end of history" decade
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Welcome to Toronto, a book desert
Plus, the future of the book launch
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February 2024

Parsing through the COC and the TSO season announcements
William Kentridge's Wozzeck finally lands
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