The Dusty Bookcase

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...

Son of Kingston, Charles Sangster was born two hundred years ago today. I can't claim to remember much of his verse, the following from ...

Cameron of Lochiel [ Les Anciens Canadiens ] Phillipe[-Joseph] Aubert de Gaspé [trans Charles G.D.      Roberts] Boston: L.C.Page, 1905 287...

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...