The Dusty Bookcase

The Torrent  [ Le torrent ] Anne Hébert [trans Gwendolyn Moore] Montreal: Harvest House, 1973 141 pages Anne Hébert completed  Le torrent  i...

My first Abebooks transaction took place in 1997, roughly two years after the site launched. I purchased a copy of Mordecai Richler's St...

Blogs.  They were done in by social media, right? In my own small way I helped hasten the decline. Back in 2011, after years of reluctance, ...

Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...

A favourite purchase of last year,  and a cherished volume for all time, my copy of Anne Hebert's 1942 debut, Les songes en équilibr...

It's been a disorienting and disruptive year. The home we'd expected to build on the banks of the Rideau became entangled in red...