The Dusty Bookcase

This past Saturday, I joined a pubfull of people – yes, a pubfull – in downtown Ottawa to celebrate John Metcalf's 85th birthday. It wa...

A trying year all around, right? The Westons have been making out like bandits while we've been obsessing over our PC Optimum points bal...

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” Th...

The Gerrard Street Mystery John Charles Dent Constance Bay: Three Bats, 2017 32 pages A Christmas gift read on Christmas Day,...

The life of James Benson Nablo has always intrigued. A Niagara Falls native who had never before appeared in print, he came out of nowhe...

Any magazine that looks like that has got to be great. The new Canadian Notes & Queries – number 91 – is just that. Between Seth...

From Ottawa comes a new chapbook of hard-boiled epigrams drawn from the writings of one of our finest noir writers. The words this time...

Cast your eyes on what is surely the most elegant Douglas Sanderson item. Printed with a Vandercook SP-15 press on St. Armand Old Maste...

An invitation to a book launch arrives... and with it comes the realization that publisher Biblioasis has received so little mention o...