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June 2025

Norrie
It’s a special kind of pleasure to read about someone’s life in the precise location where they spent most of their days.
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Can the weirdest Canadian nudes please stand up
Art in the 1960s or how Toronto finally came out of the slumber
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These murals are worth going to Oshawa for
How have I not heard of Parkwood Estate before
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All of our crises of June
The June Notebook, mostly a sedate affair, comes with an endnote of some outstanding reactionary lunacy
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May 2025

Susan Swan's memoir is quietly shocking
This was a fascinating read - but quietly so, if such a thing is not an oxymoron.
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Lydia Perovic
So that happened
and it was excellent
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Reminder: See you all on Friday
plus, some design dilemmas
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Who will write 'Ottawa Inside Out' today
Stevie Cameron's forgotten classic needs a sequel - and a reissue
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Alert: an important book
plus, Now, Voyager at Tiff Cinematheque in 35mm
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First Long Play live & in person: May 23, 7 pm
Come one, come all
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Men: the newly neglected demographic in fiction publishing?
You may remember the author and U of T writing professor David Gilmour and the scandal he caused some 12 years ago when he bragged (jokingly, I think…
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