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10 February 2017

The Beautiful, Very Desirable Stephen Leacock (and the bloody severed head of Orpheus)

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A few words as following Monday's post on Stephen Leacock's Behind the Beyond. Behind the Beyond  was dropped by New Canadian ...
08 February 2017

Ezra Levant's Great White Hope

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Available as of this morning, my Walrus review of Ezra Levant's spanking new ebook Trumping Trudeau: How Donald Trump Will Change ...
06 February 2017

Professor Leacock Sets the Stage

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Behind the Beyond      and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock Toronto: Bell & Cockburn, 1913 Early Leacock ...
22 January 2017

The Dusty Bookcase in August

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Today marks the ninth anniversary of The Dusty Bookcase, a good day to recognize what the sharp-eyed have already spotted. This coming A...
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16 January 2017

A Quiet, Mildly Depressing Depression-Era Debut

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John Irene Baird Philadelphia/Toronto: Lippincott, 1937 A first novel, the discovery that this copy is a fourth impression surprised...
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09 January 2017

Old Lady Harlequins: The Wicked, the Suicidal, the Murdered, the Petticoated, and the Headless

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The Wicked Lady Skelton Magellan King-Hill 1949 Die With Me, Lady Ronald Cocking 1953 Lady - Here's Your Wreath Raymond Ma...
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02 January 2017

The Trudeau Papers: Bang!

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The Trudeau Papers Ian Adams Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971 Thucydides wrote that Themistocles' greatness lay in the fa...
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01 January 2017

'The New Year comes white-winged, unstained, a star...'

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Century-old jingoism to begin a New Year by Minnie Henrietta Bethune Hallowell Bowen (1861-1942) of Sherbrooke, Quebec, from John W. G...
31 December 2016

'The year is dead, for Death slays even time...'

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Verse for the day from the 1935 revised edition of  Our Canadian Literature , an anthology of verse selected by the poet's friends B...
27 December 2016

The Ten Best Book Buys of a Very Bad Year

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An annus horribulus , the death of David Bowie ten days in cast a pall that just wouldn't lift. These have been days of loss and unw...
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25 December 2016

'Christmas, 1916' by Robert Stanley Weir

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from After Ypres and Other Poems Robert Stanley Weir Toronto: Musson, 1917 Related posts: A Century-Old Prayer for C...
24 December 2016

A Century-Old Prayer for Christmas

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from Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: Timely Verse from a Chr...
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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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