Articles, essays, literary essays, and book reviews long and short.
Selected Essays and Articles
- “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.
Selected Reviews
- “Mavis Gallant the Journalist.” Review of Montreal Standard Time: the Early Journalism of Mavis Gallant, edited by Neil Besner, Marta Dvořák, and Bill Richardson. Canadian Writers Abroad, 5 February 2026. This review was the 100th to be posted on Canadian Writers Abroad.
- “Mandel’s Multibook.” Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. Canadian Writers Abroad, 6 July 2023.
- “Everybody Knows.” Review of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen. Canadian Writers Abroad, 26 November 2021.
- “Making Home.” Review of Belonging and You Never Know by Isabel Huggan.
Canadian Writers Abroad, 28 May 2019. - “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.
- “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.
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