Book Reviews

Michael published his first book review in 1991 (Milan Kundera's Immortality) in the University of Waterloo student newspaper, Imprint.

The reviews below are sorted by:

• appeared in Zoomer Book Club (2024- )
• appeared on Miramichi Reader & Atlantic Books (2023- )
• appeared on Art/Life: Scribblings (2022- )
• appeared on The Underground Book Club (2008-2015)
• appeared on The Danforth Review (1999-2008)
• appeared in other publications (1991-2014)
• Canadian Notes & Queries
• Quill & Quire
• Music & Literature
• The Winnipeg Review
• Numero Cinq
• Coastlands: Maritime Policy Review
• Id Magazine
• Paragraph
• KW Record
• Imprint

Book review - Zoomer Book Club

• October 28, 2024. Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim by Jacob Wren (2024)
• August 16, 2024. The Horse in the Window by Spencer Gordon (2024)
• July 4, 2024. James by Percival Everett (2024)
• May 8, 2024. Last Woman by Carleigh Baker (2024)
• April 30, 2024. The Hollow Beast by Christophe Bernard (2024)

Book reviews - Miramichi Reader

• TBD. Vantage Point: On Media as Trans Memoir by Chase Joynt (2024)
• TBD. Best Canadian Essays 2025 (2024), selected by Emily Urquhart.
• TBD. The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails by Matthew R. Anderson (2024)
• TBD. The Coincidence Problem: Dispatches 1999-2022 by Stephen Osborne (2024) 
• October 1, 2024. The Diapause by Andrew Forbes (2024)
• September 23, 2024. Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 2024-1984 by Gary Barwin (2024)
• September 14, 2024. Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class by Sarah Smarsh (2024)
• August 5, 2024. Heydays at The June Motel, cookbook (2024)
• July 26, 2024. Killing Shakespeare by Koom Kankesan (2024)
• May 11, 2024. The Human Scale by Michael Lista (2023)
• February 12, 2024. Zaatari: Culinary Traditions of the World’s Largest Syrian Refugee Camp, Karen E. Fisher, editor (2024).
• January 29, 2024. Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness by Danila Botha (2024).
• October 9, 2023. Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works (2023)
• September 21, 2023. Where the World Was by Rosemary Sullivan (2023)
• September 18, 2023. Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (2023)
• August 28, 2023. Lump by Nathan Whitlock (2023)
• August 27, 2023. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney (2023)
• August 14, 2023. Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard (2023)
• May 29, 2023. Pieces of Myself: Fragments of an Autobiography by Keith Garebian (2023)
• April 24, 2023. Private Apartments by Idman Nur Omar (2023)
• April 3, 2023. Duck Eats Yeast, Quacks, Explodes; Man Loses Eye by Gary Barwin and Lillian Nećakov (2023)

Book reviews - Atlantic Books

• April 21, 2023. Chasing Paradise: A Hitchhiker’s Search for Home in a World at War with Itself by Chris Benjamin (2023)

Book reviews – Art/Life: Scribblings

• March 4, 2024. King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (2023)
• January 17, 2024. Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante (2023)
• December 31, 2023. The Fraud by Zadie Smith (2023)
• December 10, 2023. Anecdotes by Kathryn Mockler (2023); Daughter by Claudia Dey (2023)
• November 15, 2023. Yara by Tamara Faith Berger (2023); Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese (2023); Avalanche by Jessica Westhead (2023); A Tidy Armageddon by BH Panhuyzen (2023); Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys by Aaron Tucker (2023)
• September 1, 2023. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845); Adam Bede by George Eliot (1859); Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (1927); The Odyssey by Homer (8th c. BCE); The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791); The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992); Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit (2020); The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (2021)
• July 9, 2023. A Hero of Our Time by Naben Ruthnum (2022)
• June 4, 2023. The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (2007); The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (2021)
• March 11, 2023. Women Talking: the film (2022)/the novel (2018)
• Feb 28, 2023. This is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019); U and I by Nicholson Baker (1991)
• Feb 21, 2023. White Noise & Aboutism: the film (2022)/the novel (1985)
• Jan 5, 2023. Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit (2021); The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings by Geoff Dyer (2022); The Topeka School by Ben Lerner (2019)
• Nov 25, 2022. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (2021); My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (2011); The Magician by Colm Toibin (2021); Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (1861)
• Sept 25, 2022. The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut (1975); Time Quake by Kurt Vonnegut (1997); The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985); All the Lives We Ever Had: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth (2019); Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (2015); Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937); Best Young Woman Job Book by Emma Healey (2022); King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hoschschild (1998); Role Models by John Waters (2010)
• July 16, 2022. Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf by Sina Queyras (2022)
• July 4, 2022. The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam (2018)
• May 24, 2022. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole (2021)
• May 9, 2022. The Beautiful Place by Lee Gowan (2021)
• April 25, 2022. The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross (2022)
• April 21, 2022. The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (2020); August into Winter by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2021); The Woman Who is the Midnight Wind by Terence M. Green (1987)
• March 27, 2022. Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley (2022)
• March 24, 2022. Scarborough: A Novel, by Catherine Hernandez (2017); Scarborough: A Film, written by Catherine Hernandez, directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson (2021)
• March 12, 2022. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2019); Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980); The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (2017)
• Feb 27, 2022. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2019); The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (2020)
• Feb 9, 2022. Gutter Child by Jael Richardson (2021); Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (2020); Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
• Jan 28, 2022. Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat (2007); Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (2018); The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt (2011); In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (2019)
• Jan 19, 2022. Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon by Malcolm Gladwell (2021); No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (2021); Speak, Silence by Kim Echlin (2021); The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole (2020)
• Jan 15, 2022. The Year of No Summer by Rachel Lebowitz (2018); Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (2019); But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer (1991); Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (2020)
• Jan 9, 2022. To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927); All About Me! by Mel Brooks (2021); Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart (2021); Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (2018)

Book reviews – The Underground Book Club

• Feb 13, 2015. Anita Lahey. The Mystery Shopping Cart.
• Feb 1, 2015. Mark Sampson. Sad Peninsula.
• Jan 31, 2015. Leanne Simpson. Islands of Decolonial Love.
• Jan 31, 2015. Rae Spoon and Ivan E. Coyote. Gender Failure.
• Oct 23, 2014. Shawn Syms. Nothing Looks Familiar.
• Oct 10, 2014. Sheila Heti. How Should A Person Be?
• Sept 19, 2014. Michelle Berry. Interference.
• April 13, 2014. Zach Wells. Career Limiting Moves.
• April 1, 2014. Kerry Clare (ed.). The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood.
• July 14, 2013. Peter Roman. The Mona Lisa Sacrifice.
• July 7, 2013. Donald Barthelme. Not-Knowing.
• July 6, 2013. Sam Lipsyte. The Fun Parts.
• June 22, 2013. Spencer Gordon. Cosmo.
• June 9, 2013. Best Canadian Stories 2012.
• June 3, 2013. Julian Barnes. Levels of Life.
• June 2, 2013. Primo Levi. The Periodic Table.
• May 19, 2013. Paul Auster & J.M. Coetzee. Here and Now.
• August 6, 2012. John Bayley. Widower’s House.
• August 5, 2012. Shakespeare. Hamlet.
• May 8, 2012. Eric McCormack. Inspecting the Vaults.
• April 23, 2012. Derek Hayes. The Maladjusted.
• March 17, 2012. Russell Wagnersky. Whirl Away.
• Nov 27, 2011. Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee; A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut; Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
• Nov 12, 2011. Steven Heighton. Workbook.
• Oct 29, 2011. Pretty by Greg Kearney; The Divinity Gene by Matthew J. Trafford; Nothing Could be Further by Tim Conley; Ronald Reagan, My Father by Brian Joseph Davis
• Oct 10, 2011. Gunmetal Blue by Shane Neilson; Human Happiness by Brian Fawcett
• Sept 26, 2011. Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life by Paul Quarrington; The Perfect Order of Things by David Gilmour; Beauty & Sadness by André Alexis
• Sept 7, 2011. Clark Blaise. The Meagre Tarmac (Biblioasis, 2011).
• Sept 5, 2011. Blake Bailey. Cheever: A Life (Knopf, 2009).
• Sept 3, 2011. Jessica Westhead. And Also Sharks (Cormorant, 2011).
• Sept 2, 2011. Dimitri Nasrallah. Nico (Esplanade, 2011).
• June 19, 2011. Wayde Compton. After Canaan (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010).
• June 13, 2011. Shane Jones. Light Boxes (Penguin, 2010).
• May 5, 2011. Re: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism After Modernism. Edited by Robert David Stacey (University of Ottawa Press, 2010).
• April 13, 2011. Maggie Helwig. Girls Fall Down (Coach House, 2008).
• April 10, 2011. Stacey May Fowles. Be Good (Tightrope Books, 2007).
• March 10, 2011. Zadie Smith. Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009).
• March 6, 2011. Amy Lavender Harris. Imagining Toronto (Mansfield Press, 2010).
• Feb 7, 2011. Dany Laferrière. I am a Japanese Writer (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2010).
• Feb 2, 2011. W.P. Kinsella. Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa (Oberon, 1980), Salvatore Difalco. The Mountie at Niagara Falls (Anvil, 2010), The Journey Prize Anthology #22 (M&S, 2010).
• Jan 29, 2011. Bruce Serafin. Stardust (New Star, 2007).
• Jan 23, 2011. Sina Queyras. Unleashed (Book Thug, 2009).
• Jan 5, 2011. Shane Neilson. Complete Physical (Porcupine’s Quill, 2010).
• Dec 22, 2010. Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (1985).
• Nov 20, 2010. Jim Smith. Back Off, Assassin! New and Selected Poems (Mansfield Press, 2009), Patrick Lane. Witness: Selected Poems 1962-2010 (Harbour, 2010).
• Nov 11, 2010. Matt Lennox. Men of Salt, Men of Earth (Oberon, 2009).
• Sept 6, 2010. David Adams Richards of the Miramichi: A Biographical Introduction by Tony Tremblay (UTP, 2010).
• Aug 29, 2010. Darwin’s Barstards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow, selected and edited by Zsuzsi Gartner (Douglas & McIntryre, 2010).
• Aug 17, 2010. Kenneth Sherman. What the Furies Bring (Porcupine’s Quill, 2009).
• July 29, 2010. Diana Fitzgerald Bryden. No Place Strange (Key Porter, 2009).
• July 19, 2010. Jessica Grant. Come, Thou Tortoise (Vintage Canada, 2009).
• June 5, 2010. Peter Darbyshire. The Warhol Gang (Harper Collins, 2010).
• April 25, 2010. David Solway. Director’s Cut (Porcupine’s Quill, 2003), Carmine Starnino. A Lover’s Quarrel (Porcupine’s Quill, 2004), Philip Marchand. Ripostes (Porcupine’s Quill, 1998).
• Dec 20, 2009. Lisa Moore. February.
• Oct 25, 2009. Richard Van Camp. The Moon of Letting Go (Enfield & Wizenty, 2009).
• Sept 4, 2009. Zoe Whittall. Bottle Rocket Hearts (Comorant, 2007).
• Sept 4, 2009. John Goldbach. Selected Blackouts (Insomniac Press, 2009).
• July 24, 2009. Margaret Christakos. Sooner (Coach House Books, 2005).
• July 11, 2009. Alexandra Leggat. Animal (Anvil Press, 2009).
• July 5, 2009. Terry Griggs. Thought You Were Dead (Biblioasis, 2009).
• June 21, 2009. James Salter. A Sport and a Pastime (Farrer, Straus and Giroux, 1967).
• June 12, 2009. Tish Cohen. Inside Out Girl (Harper Collins, 2008).
• May 26, 2009. Stuart Ross. Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand Books, 2009).
• May 16, 2009. John Metcalf. Shut Up He Explained: A Literary Memoir Vol. II (Biblioasis, 2007), An Aesthetic derground: A Literary Memoir (Thomas Allen, 2003), Kicking Against The Pricks (ECW, 1982).
• May 10, 2009. Roy MacSkimming. The Perilous Trade (M&S, 2003, 2007).
• April 28, 2009. Marianne Apostolides. Swim (Book Thug, 2009).
• March 19, 2009. Richard Yates. Revolutionary Road (1961).
• Feb 22, 2009. Christopher Paul Curtis. Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic, 2007).
• Feb 7, 2009. Clark Blaise. Selected Essays (Biblioasis, 2008).
• Jan 22, 2009. Guy Vanderhaughe. Man Descending (Macmillian, 1982; Stoddart, 1992).
• Jan 3, 2009. Rebecca Rosenblum.Once (Biblioasis, 2008).
• Dec 14, 2008. Andrew Steinmetz. Eva’s Threepenny Theatre (Gaspereau, 2008),
• Oct 3, 2008. Sky Gilbert. Brother Dumb (ECW, 2007).
• Sept 1, 2008. Jonathan Bennett. Entitlement (ECW, 2008).
• Aug 30, 2008. Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, edited by Zachariah Wells (Bibiloasis, 2008).
• Aug 10, 2008. Charles Foran. Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays (Biblioasis, 2008).
• June 28, 2008. Rawi Hage. De Niro’s Game (2006).
• June 21, 2008. Richard Ford. Wildlife (1990).
• June 8, 2008. J.M. Coetzee. Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005.

TDR book reviews (by book publication date)

• 2008. Stephen Henighan. The Afterlife of Culture.
• 2008. Nathan Whitlock. A Week of This.
• 2007. David Gilmour. Film Club.
• 2007. Christian McPherson. Six Ways to Sunday.
• 2007. Brian Tucker. Big White Knuckles.
• 2006. Bono: In conversation with Michka Assayas.
• 2006. John Updike. Terrorist.
• 2006. Max and Monique Nemni. Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada.
• 2006. Moosecall #3: Big Game, Small Stories.
• 2006. Laura Hird. Hope and Other Urban Tales.
• 2006. Kenneth J. Harvey. Inside.
• 2006. Tim Conley. Whatever Happens.
• 2006. Matthew Firth. Suburban Pornography.
• 2006. Richard Ford. The Lay of the Land.
• 2005. Philip David Alexander. The Next Rainy Day.
• 2005. Craig Davidson. Rust and Bone.
• 2005. Goran Simic. Yesterday’s People.
• 2005. uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto.
• 2004. Douglas Glover. The Enamoured Knight.
• 2004. The Art of Desire: The Fiction of Douglas Glover. Ed., Bruce Stone.
• 2004. Jaspreet Singh. 17 Tomatoes.
• 2004. Gary Barwin. Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth.
• 2004. Coming Attractions 04, featuring Neil Smith, Maureen Bilerman, Jaspreet Singh.
• 2004. Douglas Glover. The South Will Rise at Noon.
• 2004. James Grainger. The Long Slide.
• 2004. Greg Kearney. Mommy, Daddy, Baby.
• 2004. John Lavery. You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off.
• 2003. Ray Robertson. Mental Hygiene: Essays on Writers and Writing.
• 2003. Andy Brown. I Can See You Being Invisible.
• 2003. Jim Christy. Tight Like That.
• 2003. J.J. Steinfeld. Curiosity to Satisfy and Fear to Placate.
• 2003. John Gould. Kilter: 55 fictions.
• 2003. Stuart Ross. Hey, Crumbling Balcony.
• 2002. Peter Darbyshire. Please.
• 2002. Anne Denoon Backflip.
• 2002. Will Ferguson. Happiness.
• 2002. Marilyn Gear Pilling. The Roseate Spoonbill of Happiness.
• 2002. Grunt & Groan: The New Fiction Anthology of Work & Sex.
• 2002. Sean Johnston. A Day Does Not Go By.
• 2002. Catherine Kidd. Sea Peach.
• 2002. Lisa Moore. Open.
• 2002. Mordecai Richler. The Acrobats.
• 2002. Rod Schumacher. Habits and Love.
• 2002. Mary Chan. The Fifth Girl.
• 2002. Hawksley Workman. Hawksley Burns for Isadora.
• 2002. Mark Anthony Jarman. Ireland’s Eye.
• 2001. Matt Cohen. Typing: A Life in 26 Keys & Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen (2002).
• 2001. George Elliott Clarke. Blue.
• 2001. Haruki Murakami. Sputnik Sweetheart.
• 2001. Hal Niezviecki. Ditch.
• 2001. Sheila Heti. The Middle Stories.
• 2001. Matthew Firth. Can You Take Me There, Now?
• 2001. Mark Doyon. Bonneville.
• 2001. Douglas Glover. The Life and Times of Captain N.
• 2001. Terence M. Green. St. Patrick’s Bed.
• 2001. Michael Redhill. Martin Sloane.
• 2001. Ribsauce: a cd/anthology of words by women.
• 2001. Leon Rooke. Painting the Dog.
• 2001. George Murray. The Cottage Builder’s Letter.
• 2000. Michael Twist. Highs & Lows: A Personal Approach to Living with Diabetes.
• 2000. Unheard of…. (CD anthology).
• 2000. Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg. Nitty Gritty: The Film Noir Poems.
• 2000. Alexandra Leggat. Pull Gently, Tear Here.
• 2000. Douglas Glover. 16 Categories of Desire.
• 2000. Terence M. Green. Shadow of Ashland.
• 2000. John Lavery. Very Good Butter.
• 2000. The Paris Connection. Anthology.
• 2000. Jason Gallagher. Three chapbooks & if I could be a bird I’d be a cat.
• 2000. Penn Kemp. On Our Own Spoke (CD).
• 2000. Hopi Martin. Harvest.
• 2000. rob mclennan. Bagne or Criteria for Heaven.
• 1999. rob mclennan. Bury me deep in the green wood.
• 1999. rob mclennan. The Richard Brautigan Ahhhhhhhh.
• 1999. Terence Young. The Island in Winter.
• 1999. Clarence Bolt. Does Canada Matter? Liberalism and the Illusion of Sovereignty.
• 1999. Robert Fulford. The Triumph of Narrative.
• 1999. Peter Jaeger. ABC of Reading TRG.
• 1999. Jennifer LoveGrove. The Scorpion Wife.
• 1999. Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium.
• 1999. Brian Panhuyzen. Death of the Moon.
• 1999. Natalee Caple. The Plight of Happy People in an Ordinary World.
• 1999. Lynn Crosbie. Dorothy L’Amour: A Novel.
• 1999. Monica S. Kuebler. Legacy (and other short fiction).
• 1999. Clive Doucet. Looking for Henry.
• 1999. A.D. Peterkin. The Bald-Headed Hermit & the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus.
• 1999. Evelyn Lau. Choose Me.
• 1999. Russell Smith. Young Men.
• 1999. Tony Burgess. Caesarea.
• 1999. T. Anders Carson. Stain (CD).
• 1998. Tony Burgess. Pontypool Changes Everything.
• 1998. Natalee Caple. The Heart is Its Own Reason.
• 1998. Lynn Coady. Strange Heaven.
• 1998. Michael Holmes. 21 Hotels.
• 1998. Michael Ignatieff. Isaiah Berlin: A Life.
• 1998. Mark Anthony Jarman. New Orleans is Sinking.
• 1997. Mark Anthony Jarman. Salvage King, Ya!: A Herky-Jerky Picaresque.
• 1997. T. Anders Carson. Salt Pork and Sunsets.
• 1991. Don DeLillo. Mau II.
• 1987. Saul Bellow. More Die of Heartache.

Book reviews (by periodical publication date)

• June 2014 (#90). Canadian Notes & Queries. Lisa Moore. Caught.
• October 22, 2013. Music & Literature. Douglas Glover. Savage Love.
• October 2013. Quill & Quire. Cynthia Flood. Red Girl Rat Boy.
• September 2013. Quill & Quire. Melia McClure. The Delphi Room.
• Aug 12, 2013. The Winnipeg Review. Paulo da Costa’s The Green and Purple Skin of the World; Collette Maitland’s Keeping the Peace
• Winter/Spring 2012 (#84). Canadian Notes & Queries. Zsuzsi Gartner. Better Living Through Plastic Explosives.
• October 2011. Quill and Quire. Guy Vanderhaeghe. A Good Man.
• September 26, 2011. The Winnipeg Review. Lynn Coady. The Antagonist.
• August 1, 2011. Numero Cinq. Craig Seligman. Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me (Counterpoint, 2004).
• Spring 2011. Coastlands: Maritime Policy Review. Tony Tremblay. David Adams of the Miramichi.
• October 2010. Quill & Quire. Trevor Clark. Love on the Killing Floor. Now or Never.
• September 2010. Quill and Quire. Rudy Wiebe. Collected Stories: 1955-2010. U of Alberta Press.
• July 2010. Quill and Quire. Jim Christy. Real Gone. Quattro Books.
• May 2010. Quill and Quire. Ryan Knighton. C’mon Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark. Knopf.
• April 2010. Quill and Quire. Jack Hodgins. The Invention of the World. Ronsdale Press. The Master of Happy Endings. Thomas Allen.
• Jan/Feb 2010. Quill and Quire. Ryan Turner. What We’re Made Of. Oberon.
• Sept 2001. Quill and Quire. Memos to the Prime Minister: What Canada Could Be in the 21st Century. Ed., Harvey Schachter. John Wiley & Sons.
• July 2001. Quill and Quire. Arthur Bishop. Unsung Courage: 20 Stories of Canadian Valour & Sacrifice. HarperCollins.
• June 2001. Quill and Quire. Janice MacDonald. Sticks and Stones: A Randy Craig Mystery. Turnstone.
• April 2001. Quill and Quire. Barry K. Wilson. Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst. McGill-Queen’s UP.
• Feb 2001. Quill and Quire. John Farrow. Ice Lake. HarperCollins.
• Dec 2000. Quill and Quire. Josef Skvorecky. When Eve Was Naked. Key Porter.
• Oct 2000. Quill and Quire. James Kostelniuk. Wolves Among Sheep: The True Story of Murder in a Jehovah’s Witness Community. HarperCollins.
• August 2000. Quill and Quire. Fighting for Canada: Seven Battles, 1758-1945. Ed., Donald E. Graves. Robin Brass Studio.
• May 2000. Quill and Quire. Mark Anthony Jarman. 19 Knives. Anansi.
• April 2000. Quill and Quire. Barbara Lampert. A Message for Mr. Lazarus. Cormorant.
• Feb 2000. Quill and Quire. Michael Holmes. Watermelon Row. Arsenal Pulp Press.
• Jan 2000. Mike Barnes. Aquarium. Porcupine’s Quill.
• Nov 1999. Quill and Quire. Barbara and Ormond Mitchell. W.O.: The Life of W.O. Mitchell, Beginnings to Who Has Seen the Wind. M&S.
• Sept 1999. Quill and Quire. George Bowering. Egotists and Autocrats: The Prime Ministers of Canada. Penguin.
• July 1999. Quill and Quire. Karen Dubinsky. The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls. Between the Lines.
• April 1999. Quill and Quire. Cary Fagan. Felix Roth. Stoddart.
• Feb 1999. Quill and Quire. John Farrow. City of Ice. HarperCollins.
• 1998/99. Paragraph #25. Hal Niedzviecki. Smell It. Coach House.
• 1998/99. Paragraph #25. Stan Rogal. Restless. Insomniac.
• 1998. Paragraph #23. Sandra Birdsell. The Two-Headed Calf. M&S.
• 1997. Paragraph #22. Barry Kennedy. Through the Nightfall. Doubleday.
• 1997. Paragraph #21. Eye wuz here. Ed., Shannon Cooley. Douglas & McIntyre.
• 1997. Paragraph #20. Ken Sparling. Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall. Knopf.
• 1996. Paragraph #19. Alan Cumyn. Between Families and the Sky. Goose Lane.
• 1996. Paragraph #17. Robert MacLean. Home from the Party. Ronsdale.
• 1996. Paragraph #17. D.H. Toole. Moonlit Days & Nights. Cormorant.
• Oct 1996. Id Magazine. Robert Bly. The Sibling Society. Addison-Wesley. Marion Woodman & Elinor Dickson. Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness. Knopf.
• July 1996. Id Magazine. Stephane Bourguignon. Sandman Blues. Stoddart.
• Aug 19, 1995. KW Record. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Of Love & Other Demons. Knopf.
• Aug 1995. Id Magazine. Beds and Shotguns. desire high heels red wine. Ed., Mike O’Connor. Insomniac Press.
• July 29, 1995. KW Record. Philip Zeigler. London at War. Knopf.
• July 8, 1995. KW Record. Dennis E. Bolen. Stand in Hell. Random House.
• June 3, 1995. KW Record. Tom Flannagan. Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and Preston Manning. Stoddart. Trevor Harrison. Of Passionate Intensity: Right-Wing Populism and the Reform Party of Canada. U of Toronto Press.
• June 1995. Id Magazine. Richard Wright. The Age of Longing. HarperCollins.
• April 29, 1995. KW Record. Ivan Klima. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light. Grove Press.
• April 22, 1995. KW Record. Sister Souljah. No Disrespect. Random House.
• April 1995. Id Magazine. Charles Foran. The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast. Harper Collins.
• March 1995. Id Magazine. Dany Laferriere. Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?. Dining with a Dictator. Coach House.
• Feb 18, 1995. KW Record. Jean Rouard. Of Illustrious Men. Fitzhenry & Whiteside.
• Feb 1995. Id Magazine. Daniel Jones. The People One Knows. Mercury.
• Jan 28, 1994. Imprint. Nino Ricci. In a Glass House. M&S.
• June 26, 1992. Imprint. Toni Morrison. Jazz. Knopf.
• May 29, 1992. Imprint. Rosemary Sullivan. By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life. Penguin Books.
• May 1, 1992. Imprint. Nino Ricci. Lives of the Saints. Cormorant.
• Jan 10, 1992. Imprint. Douglas Coupland. Generation X. St. Martin’s Press.
• Jan 10, 1992. Imprint. David Gilmour. How Boys See Girls. Random House.
• Sept 27, 1991. Imprint. Milan Kundera. Immortality. Grove Press.