The Dusty Bookcase

Earlier this month, I tried to sell a friend on Basil King, as is my habit. I mentioned that in 1909 his novel The Inner Shrine  outsold eve...

Christie Redfern’s Troubles by the author of “Mark Wedgewood’s Wooing,” etc. [Margaret Murray Robertson] London: The Religious Trac...

Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of Saul Bellow's birth. Take my word for it. The Canadian Encyclopedia , The Oxfo...

I Die Slowly [ The Dark Tunnel ] Kenneth Millar New York: Lion, 1955 222 pages This review now appears, revised and rewrit...

The Planet of Lost Things Mark Strand (William Pène Du Bois, illus.) New York: Potter, 1982 We're a funny lot, forever going ...