The Dusty Bookcase

Fermez la porte, on gèle René Carrier Westmount, QC: Desclez, 1981 This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new bo...

From a Seaside Town Norman Levine London: Macmillan, 1970 Challenge:  Draw attention to a neglected, critically acclaimed novel by ...

That would be 1968, the very same year in which Canadian Notes & Queries made its debut. It was my honour to become the first co...

The new Canadian Notes & Queries has landed, bringing with it another Dusty Bookcase column. The eighth to date, it's a revi...

The National Magazine  (New York), August 1858 Related posts: Cheery Victoria Day Verse from the Cheese Poet Verse for Victoria...

A Dum-Dum for the President Martin Brett [pseud. Douglas Sanderson] London: Hammond, 1961 Depending on how you want to look at it, ...

A follow-up to Friday's post on Manhandled : Time was you could see the classic silent film online. No more. At some point last ...