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...

Several months ago, The Dorchester Review  asked me to review David Staines'  A History of Canadian Fiction . Who am I to turn down an i...

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...