Belles Lettres

Articles, essays, literary essays, and book reviews long and short.

“Routine.” My (Small Press) Writing Day,
9 September 2019.
” A Canadian Author in Chelsea: Sara Jeannette Duncan.” The Chelsea Society Report 2013: 33-41.
“Beauty in the Complexity of the Brain.” A review of the Wellcome Collection exhibition, “Brains, the Mind as Matter.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 15 May 2012: 925.
“Keeping Body and Soul Together.” Descant 132 Entering the Other: the World of Barbara Gowdy (Spring 2006): 59-63.
“Unfit to Live.” The Left Atrium, Canadian Medical Association Journal 14 September 2004; 171 (6): 619-620.
“Promotion and Paradox: On Literary Interviews.” Paragraph (Summer 1998): 11-14.
“Pushkar’s Camel Bazaar.” The Toronto Star 30 August 1997: G1, G12.
“Laurence of Africa.” Paragraph (Summer 1994): 9-13.
“Cultural Representations.” Field Notes. Books in Canada (March 1993): 6-7.
“Air of Oppression in Kenya.” The Gazette [Montreal] 24 August 1991: J3, J5.
“Kenyan Writing Goes Far Beyond Out of Africa.” The Gazette [Montreal] 9 Feb. 1991: I4.
Interview with Mavis Gallant. Rubicon 4 (1984-85): 150-182.
Rpt. So to Speak: Interviews with Contemporary Canadian Writers, ed. Peter O’Brien. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1987: 250-282.

“Everybody Knows.” Review of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen. Canadian Writers Abroad 26 November 2021.
“Mary Lawson’s Solace.” Review of Solace by Mary Lawson.
Canadian Writers Abroad 13 May 2021.
“More Terrifying to Stay: A Review of D.W. Wilson’s Ballistics.”
Numéro Cinq Magazine 4.10 (October 2013).
Review of Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa.
Canadian Writers Abroad 4 June 2013.
“Tragically Disproportionate: A Review of Jon McGregor’s This Isn’t the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone Like You.” Numéro Cinq Magazine 3.26 (September 2012).
“A Patient and her Snail.” Rev. of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey. Canadian Medical Association Journal 16 October 2012: 1719.
Rev. of The Chrome Suite by Sandra Birdsell.
Paragraph 15.1 (Summer 1993): 30-31.
“Bad Guys Wear White in Nigerian Novel.” Rev. of The Famished Road by Ben Okri. The Gazette [Montreal] 23 Nov. 1991: J6.
Rev. of Stories by Canadian Women. Edited by Rosemary Sullivan.
Room of One’s Own 10.2 (1985): 98-101.
“The Elusive Ideal.” Rev. of The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan. Brick 24 (1985): 24-26.
Rev. of The Salvation of Yasch Siemens by Armin Wiebe. Turnstone Press. Rubicon 4 (1984-85): 213-15.
Rev. of Death Suite by Leon Rooke. Quill & Quire (November 1981): 24.