The Dusty Bookcase

The Fiend Margaret Millar New York: Dell, 1966 224 pages This review now appears, revised and rewritten, in my new book: ...

Death by Deficit: A 2001 Novel Richard Rohmer Toronto: Stoddart, 1995 There are plenty of villains in this novel – Quebecers, bank...

The Parliamentary Librarian chased after "Gilbert Knox". Conservative MP Alfred Fripp joined in the hunt, intent on having the...

The Town Below [Au pied de la pente douce] Roger Lemelin [trans. Samuel Putnam] New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948 We open on th...

In the glow cast by Valentine's Day, no attention should be paid to Arthur Stringer's  The Wine of Life, but I've been work...

Brittle Bondage Rosalind Brett Toronto: Harlequin, 1969 You didn't think I'd let the day pass, did you? Related posts: H...

It was six years ago yesterday that I began this exploration of the suppressed, ignored and forgotten in Canadian literature. Brian Moor...