The Dusty Bookcase

A follow-up to last week's post on A Japanese Nightingale .   On 19 November 1903, A Japanese Nightingale , dramatist William Young'...

A Japanese Nightingale Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1901 226 pages Onoto Watanna was her own creation. She was not a Ja...

In my twenties, the 'twenties – by which I mean the 1920s – seemed the height of art, film, decadence, glamour, and romance. I'm not...

For the day, a list of fifteen novels by Quebecers – born and bred – all deserving more attention. In each case, the image presented is the ...

The season brings a flurry of activity, which explains why I haven't posted one review this month. Still, I did manage to tackle twenty-...