The Dusty Bookcase

Recently arrived titles at Montreal's The Word Bookstore . Palmer's epic and the others depicted can be purchased through the store&...

The Wife Traders: A Tale of the North Arthur Stringer Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936 319 pages Tooloona: A Novel of the North Arthur Stri...

I'm honoured to have been asked by the  Globe & Mail  to write an obituary of poet, critic, journalist, biographer, and lexicographe...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Marjorie's Canadian Winter: A Story ...

For this Easter Sunday, verse by Agnes Maule Machar, daughter of Church of Scotland clergyman John Machar, from her 1899 collection Lays of ...

Blood on My Rug E. Louise Cushing New York: Arcadia, 1956 223 pages Miss Talmadge visits her St Catherine Street bookstore on a Sunday after...

The frontispiece to Madge Macbeth's Kleath (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1917) Artist: George William Gage A brief follow-up to the...