The Dusty Bookcase

A few days into the year and already a new issue of Canadian Notes & Queries . This one – number 114! – features writing by: Noelle All...

The one hundred and twelfth issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in our rural mailbox yesterday afternoon. A beautiful thing, wrap...

Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...

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, ...

The most recent number of Canadian Notes & Queries  – The Crime Issue – arrived last week in our Upper Canada rural mailbox. I was honou...

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

Can it be? Not four weeks into the New Year and already a new Canadian Notes & Queries ? A theme issue – "Writing in the Age of...

Christie Redfern’s Troubles by the author of “Mark Wedgewood’s Wooing,” etc. [Margaret Murray Robertson] London: The Religious Trac...

The Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Canadian Notes & Queries arrived in my mailbox this week. I should've received it last month....

"Malcolm Lowry has an entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia , so why not wife Margerie?" This is the question I pose in reviewing...