Reviews & Essays

REVIEWS

Book reviews (1991-present)

ESSAYS

Defying the black flies: The Romanticism of Susanna Moodie (Paragraph Magazine, 1997)

The Death of the (Canadian) Novel (The Danforth Review, 2001)

On reviewing books (The Danforth Review, 2003)

Responding to George Orwell's 1984 in 2004 (The Danforth Review, 2004)

Opens outward into mystery: The Fiction of Douglas Glover (An Essay in Three Parts) (The Danforth Review, 2005)

Short Story Theory (lichen, 7.2, Fall/Winter 2005) * This essay has been anthologized twice in school text books.

Short Fiction in Canada: 2004/05 (The Danforth Review, 2005)

Michael says Goodbye to Saul Bellow (The Danforth Review, 2005)

Reading & Ranking: Reflecting on The New York Times' "Best American Novel 1980-2005" feature (The Danforth Review, 2006)

Interview with Michael on reviewing books (Lemon Hound, 2009)

Short Stories of Carol Shields (Canadian Notes & Queries #80, Nov 2010)

Sontag & Kael: Criticism is demolition? (Numero Cinq, Aug 2011)

On "27 Days" (The New Quarterly #121, Winter 2012)

On Douglas Glover's Savage Love (Music & Literature, 2013)

Reflecting on Cancer, COVID, and Uncertainty (Art/Life: Scribblings, 2022)

Responding to "That Trauma Plot Take Down" (Art/Life: Scribblings, 2022)

White Noise and Aboutism (Art/Life: Scribblings, 2023)

Women Talking: The Film/The Book (Art/Life: Scribblings, 2023)

Zadie Smith: The Fraud (Art/Life: Scribblings, 2023)

Alice Munro: An Art/Life Case Study (Art/Life: Scribblings, 2024)