The Dusty Bookcase

Last week, I has the pleasure of joining Alexandra Irimia, Bilal Hashmi, Patricia Godbout, Phyllis Aronoff, and Arianne Des Rochers for the ...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Cousin Elva Stuart Trueman Toronto: McClella...

Quebec in Revolt Herman Buller Toronto: Swan, 1966 352 pages The cover has all the look of a 1960s polemic, but  Quebec in Revolt is in fact...

A sixty-page booklet published by  William Southam , father of the Southam newspaper empire, Regimental Songs was distributed to members of...

Who Wins?; or, The Secret of Monksworth Waste May Agnes Fleming New York: New York Book Company, 1910 180 pages A woman trudges by night, ba...

I can't be alone in finding this cover disturbing. Just what is going on? Is this woman terrified or has she lost her mind? Is she...

Having praised Quebec City and its  plaques bleu on Wednesday , I now condemn. And with good reason.  As one may divine, the above – 755, ru...