The Dusty Bookcase

NEW YEAR'S EVE           The air is pulsing as with crowding wings.           Migrant Ideals and valiant-hearted Dreams,       ...

Not Wives and Lovers , the best novel. Not Frustration , the worst. Not Dan Hill's self-flagellating  Comeback , the strangest. No, ...

The Gerrard Street Mystery John Charles Dent Constance Bay: Three Bats, 2017 32 pages A Christmas gift read on Christmas Day,...

Lens, France 25 December 1917 A poem by Arthur Stringer from the December 1917 issue of Maclean's. Christmas Bells in War Time...

The Mystery of the Muffled Man Max Braithwaite Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962 160 pages Fifty-five years ago, The Mystery...

I finished reading my last book of the year yesterday afternoon; there is no way the I'll reach the end of the next before January. ...

The "Globe 100" of its time, I've long been interested in the Globe & Mail's  "Season's Best Books in Rev...