The Dusty Bookcase

The Mystery of the Folded Paper Hulbert Footner New York: Collier, n.d. The British title is  The Folded Paper Mystery . Any bette...

Posted this morning online at the Walrus , an expansion of last Friday's blog post . Available at the Walrus  – gratis – t...

Last week the Conservative Party of Canada used taxpayer dollars to create and post a meme to its Facebook page. There's nothing at ...

The tenth Ricochet Books title is back from the printers and is now on its way to better bookstores. Given the series'  raison d'...

The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale Frank L. Packard New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1931 "The Gray Seal is dead." So ...

Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures. They began tearing down the old school next to our home last w...

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