The Dusty Bookcase

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 ...

Véhicule Press celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this past weekend. One of eight people invited to speak at the celebration, I kept kept m...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). This one's a cheat. I reviewed The Whip ...

Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The English Governess Miles Underwood [John ...

Last week, I has the pleasure of joining Alexandra Irimia, Bilal Hashmi, Patricia Godbout, Phyllis Aronoff, and Arianne Des Rochers for the ...

I'm honoured to have been asked by the  Globe & Mail  to write an obituary of poet, critic, journalist, biographer, and lexicographe...

Earlier this week, during a House of Commons debate, Conservative Member of Parliament Arnold Viersen (Peace River–Westlock) asked fello...

Twenty-eighteen was a year of great change. In April, we sold our home of ten years and started packing up our belongings. We moved in...