The Dusty Bookcase

Hardscrabble; or, The Fall of Chicago Major [John] Richardson New York: Pollard & Moss, 1888 113 pages A forgotten novel about forgotten...

Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer's commanding countenance graces the cover of the new issue of Zoomer , just now hitting the stands. A ...

What with everything going on in Ottawa these days, my focus on things political has shifted from Parliament Hill to the hot tubs and bouncy...

The 43rd Canadian general election takes place today. The first I remember was the twenty-ninth – October 30, 1972 – which Pierre Trudea...

Thoughts this weekend have been with Nelson Ball, who died this past Friday. I first encountered Nelson as a poet, and later as a bookse...

Four years ago this month, I set out to read every book ever written by Richard Rohmer. It wasn't my idea. My old pal Chris Kell...

The Trudeau Papers Ian Adams Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fa...

Today in The Walrus , my take on the biggest story going: The Brexit Fix-it: How an obscure forty-year-old Canadian thriller might ...

The Toronto Star , 6 March 1984 Related posts: Career Advice from A.E. van Vogt Arthur Stringer's Recipe for Commercial Su...

Death by Deficit: A 2001 Novel Richard Rohmer Toronto: Stoddart, 1995 There are plenty of villains in this novel – Quebecers, bank...

December. Time has come to admit that we've failed. Eleven months ago, with my friends Chris Kelly and Stanley Whyte, I set out to...

Poems Arthur Henry Ward [pseud. Richard Rohmer] Don Mills, ON: Musson, 1980 It all began late last year when I noticed a seemingly f...

Starmageddon Richard Rohmer Toronto: Irwin, 1986 Starmageddon takes place in a future past. We know this because the Office of the ...