The Dusty Bookcase

A 1968 children's book, one of the most obscure novels I've read since beginning the Dusty Bookcase, The Terror of the Tar Sands ca...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). The Bells of St. Stephen's Marian Keith ...

A Gift to Last Gordon Pinsent and Grahame Woods Toronto: Seal, 1978 215 pages Gordon Pinsent celebrated his ninetieth birthday last ...

Not one week into 2020, I met a physician friend for dinner at Sidedoor in Ottawa's ByWard Market. Over too many drinks, he told me of ...

Maclean's , 15 December 1934 Merry Chrismas! Joyeux Noël! Related posts: 'A Christmas Fantasy' by Bernard Freeman Trotter 'W...

Edna Jaques, Poet Laureate of the Home, as captured by J.W. Tetlow for the 1 September 1951 issue of Maclean's magazine. This poem come...

The Globe , 4 December 1920 The 1920  Globe  round-up of the year's best books was published on the first Saturday of that December. Twe...