The Dusty Bookcase

Thinking of my father today, the hundredth anniversary of his birth. He died far too young, and I have so very few memories. I did inherit s...

The Calgary Herald , 29 September 1978 This weekend the 29th Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents  Love on the Nose. Do you know it? I didn...

A Gift to Last Gordon Pinsent and Grahame Woods Toronto: Seal, 1978 215 pages Gordon Pinsent celebrated his ninetieth birthday last ...

The Darling Illusion Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1954 246 pages Olivia Thompson's dead body lies in a slowly growing p...

After much delay, Canada Reads 2020 has come and gone. Congrats to Samra Habib, whose memoir  We Have Always Been Here won the game...

Not for Every Eye [ Le libraire ] Gérard Bessette [trans. Glen Shortliffe]  Toronto: Macmillan, 1962 98 pages Yesterday marked the...

For those who just can't wait, the essay on  Canada Reads  I wrote for next month's Canadian Notes & Queries  has just been...

The time has come to ask why CBC Books demonstrates so little regard for this country's French language writing. Published yesterd...

Toronto Life, vol. 4, no. 7 (7 June 1970) There are jokes to be made about  Toronto Life  having to travel two hours outside the city ...

Hard to take pride in  a list that is just 2% French . Related posts: Why You Shouldn't Feel Bad about the 100 Novels That ...

It's been nearly a year since CBC Books unveiled its crummy 100 NOVELS THAT MAKE YOU PROUD TO BE CANADIAN. Don't know about yo...

The Plouffe Family [ Les Plouffe ] Roger Lemelin [trans. Mary Finch] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1950 373 pages This r...

"Depressing how few of these I've read," writes a friend. Minutes later, others begin chiming in with similar sentiment… a...