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In Canada's Green and Pleasant Land

Robert Switzer, Esquire

Bringing It All Back Home

The Lady Vanishes (again and again)

Tales of Terror, Torment, and... Charm?

Old Novels and the Women Who Owned Them

The Colony of Unrequited Nightmares

The Great Lost Canadian Mystery Novel?

She Ain't Sleepin': This Year's Harlequin Valentine

Let the Right One In

A Ross Macdonald Sunday Matinee Mystery – With Guest Appearence by Catherine O'Hara

The Jan Hilliard Ricochet

The Woman Who Didn't (and the Man Who Very Much Wanted To)

'To the New Year,' 'To the New Year,' and More

The Three Best Reads of 2025 (two are in print!)

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2025 (and four gifts!)

Wishing a Merrie Christmasse Untoe Ye

Dusty CanLit Autumn Reads

Exhuming McCarthy

The 1925 Globe 110: Less Motoring, More Reading

The Best Canadian Books in English (as of 1925)

Discussing Canadian Lit With ChatGPT: Alternative Facts or Alternate Universe?

The Great War and Its Discontents

An Evening With Merrickville Artists

Remembrance Day

Wild Geese on Film (Part 3): After the Harvest

Wild Geese on Film (Part 2): Ruf der WildgÀnse

Wild Geese on Film (Part I): Wild Geese

You Only Die Twice on a Harlequin Halloween

Wild Wild Geese

Don't Kill the Dog

Ted Mann's Pulp Fiction

Dusty CanLit Summer Reviews

A Fair Thriller

Laura Secord at 250: What is Good and Brave

Carnac the Magnificent

Four of My Father's Books

A Japanese Nightingale on Stage and Screen

A 'Japanese' Nightingale: Winnifred Eaton at 150

A Pulp Writer's Challenge to Canadians

The Urban Leacock

Sunshine Scandals of a Little Town

All His Troubles Seemed So Far Away

'How we joyously welcome this travail-less birth'

On Abebooks' '20 must-read Canadian authors'

Celebrating la FĂȘte nationale in 1911

Dusty CanLit Spring Reviews

A Man Reaps What He Sows

Looking Back on Looking Forward

Towards a Canada of Light

A Journey Through CanLit and the Writing Life

On an Eminent Author's Lost Film

The Long and Winding Street

John Craig's Tuesday Night Movie: "When was the last time you saw a good film about a kidnapping?"

"A good kidnapping story always has wide appeal."

The Man with the Midas Touch