The Dusty Bookcase

The Cashier [Alexandre Chenevert] Gabrielle Roy [trans. Harry Binsse] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1955 I wonder how much slee...

The first review of my first book was negative. The reviewer's disappointment had to do with my having written the book I wanted to...

In a long, hot summer of precious little precious rain, Seth's cover for the new Canadian Notes & Queries reminds booklovers ...

The Quebec Plot Leo Heaps Toronto: Seal, 1979 This is a thriller written by a man whose own story reads like a thriller. A Jew...

On this Canada Day, still more English-language lyrics for 'O Canada'. These come courtesy of Violet Alice Clarke, from her 191...

Today in The Walrus , my take on the biggest story going: The Brexit Fix-it: How an obscure forty-year-old Canadian thriller might ...

Pamphlet-souvenir de la fête patronale des Canadiens-      français de  Lowell, Mass., le 24 juin 1891 Lowell, MA: Bureaux et atelier...