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02 August 2021
Shorter Moore
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Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories Brian Moore [Belfast]: Turnpike, 2020 102 pages Brian Moore was first and foremost a novelist. He rece...
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17 May 2021
He and His Arrow
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Quest for Pajaro Edward Maxwell [pseud Ted Allan] London: Heinemann, 1957 116 pages Before the title page, the reader encounters this: It ha...
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10 October 2019
Celebrating Constance Beresford-Howe
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McGill student Constance Beresford-Howe had just received her BA when word came that she'd won the Intercollegiate Literary Fello...
19 August 2019
Bach to the Future, Part III:
The Squeaking Wheel
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Final words on A Voice is Calling and its author. About eight years ago, I posted a piece on The Squeaking Wheel , an ugly, bigoted...
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05 August 2019
Bach to the Future:
A Voice is Calling
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A Voice is Calling Eric Cecil Morris Montreal: B.D. Simpson, 1945 487 pages The strangest novel I've read this year, I strug...
07 January 2019
A Gentleman's Gentleman Cultivates a Lady
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The Dust Flower Basil King New York: Harper, 1922 350 pages Basil King wrote the two best novels I read last year. The first, The T...
30 December 2017
My Favourite Read of 2017?
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Not Wives and Lovers , the best novel. Not Frustration , the worst. Not Dan Hill's self-flagellating Comeback , the strangest. No, ...
09 April 2017
Canon Scott's Vimy Ridge Poem
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Verse written on the occasion of the greatest Canadian victory of the Great War by one who was there. This version of Scott's poem ...
21 December 2016
A 1980s
Duddy Kravitz
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I Lost It All in Montreal Donna Steinberg New York: Avon, 1983 259 pages This review, revisited and revised, now appears in my...
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24 November 2016
Kenneth Orvis Cover Cavalcade (and a mystery)
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What follows fails. It was intended as a visual feast of first edition covers for every book written by the mysterious Kenneth ...
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