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The madness of Queen Scott
Re-Reading Canadiana: Scott Symons Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture (1971) with photos by John de Visser.
Jan 14 • Lydia Perovic
What we can understand about our own time
let alone the past
Jan 7 • Lydia Perovic
Hello from Trieste
A city that was for everyone before global cities were a thing: the main port to the otherwise landlocked Austria-Hungary, Trieste was Germanic, Slav…
Dec 31, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
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Gender is an idiom of distress that is incredibly salient right now
Feb 22, 2024 • Lydia Perovic
Have you thought about Jesse Wente’s feelings today? If not, why not?
Aug 1, 2022 • Lydia Perovic
Conservative plan for arts and culture
Jul 21, 2024 • Lydia Perovic
Things I know at 50
Apr 17, 2024 • Lydia Perovic
Hello from Trieste
Dec 31, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
The year of failing dangerously
Feb 12, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
Looking back, looking ahead
Plus the best books and the huh books
Dec 25, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
A guide to the Christian downtown
‘Tis the season, so let’s take a Christian heritage walk and visit the main cathedrals downtown, shall we.
Dec 20, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
Your house reno can kill you
Plus, give Michael Healey a TV series, so his webinar urge can have an outlet
Dec 14, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
The bag is still mixed at the midtown museum
Plus, re-reading a CanLit classic
Dec 8, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
Changes afoot at Toronto's History Museums?
Plus, a contemporary opera which lives in the past, and a BBC audio series about a literary cancellation
Dec 3, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
Olympia's song
A quick note to invite you to come to the book do for Victoria Hetherington’s new work of non-fiction, Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship.
Nov 28, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
Revisiting Halifax
I just return from Halifax, Nova Scotia where a group of U of King’s College and Dal affiliated scholars held a journée d’étude - a type of conference …
Nov 24, 2025 • Lydia Perovic
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