The Dusty Bookcase

Late last night, as Christmas festivities drew to a close, I pulled Victor Lauriston's  The Twenty-first Burr  (Toronto: McClelland &...

Arthur Mayse's  Perilous Passage  is now arriving in better bookstores. Its publication comes after a long search. Post-war Canadian noi...

This  annus horribilis  draws to a close – thank God – meaning the time has come to recap the last twelve months of reading old books. I tac...

The new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries  arrives at a busy time of year, which suits me just fine. I usually race through each issue, ...

Emily Mernin's article "Montreal Noir, from Passion to Print" has been up on the  Read Quebec  site for some days now. It'...

Not one week into 2020, I met a physician friend for dinner at Sidedoor in Ottawa's ByWard Market. Over too many drinks, he told me of ...

Saturday Evening Post , 11 May 1946 My third post on Arthur Mayse in under two weeks. Why not? Shining a light on neglected writers...

  At ten, The Beachcombers  consumed a steady portion of my week – one half-hour each Sunday evening – and yet Arthur Mayse's name m...