Every now and then I like to go off on a rant, or dig a little deeper than I get a chance to in a review.  

• 2003 Year-in-Review Panel - An online roundtable discussion.

• 2004 Year-in-Review Panel - Second online roundtable discussion.

• 2005 Year-in-Review Panel - Third online roundtable discussion.

• Adventures in the Reviewing Trade: A Cultural Primer - More thoughts on reviewing. At Canadian Notes and Queries.

• The Death of the "Author" - Saying good-bye, again.

• A Defence of Reviewing - We're not all bad.

• Five Books to Make the Heart Sink - Sometimes you can see them coming.

• Giller Green Room: 2006 - A roundtable on the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

• History Lessons - A blast from the past.

• Kid Stuff - Grow up!

• Looking Backward - Reflections on the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize. At Canadian Notes and Queries.  

• The Me-Authors: A Review - Enough about yourself.

• The Morning After - On today's poetry.

• "Necessarily Limited": On Writers and Their Work - Get a job!

• The New Industrial Art - Our brave new world.

• Old Dogs, New Tricks - Generational warfare.

• Reading Canada Reads 2008 - A discussion of the CBC Radio program.

• Runaway Jury - Governor-General's Award for Poetry in English, 2004

• Runaway Jury 2 - Governor-General's Award for Poetry in English, 2005

• Runaway Jury 3 - Governor-General's Award for Poetry in English, 2006

• Runaway Jury 4 - Governor-General's Award for Poetry in English, 2007

• The Shrinking Canon - Is there a text in this class?

• Some Observations on the New SF - A thematic analysis of The Year's Best Science-Fiction, 1996 - 1998.

• Speaking Out - An old rag on the Emperor's new clothes.

• Spring Cleaning - Out with the old, in with the new.

• Unholy Legions - The horror! The horror!

• What Has Changed - A grumble on the state of the art.

• The Year in Review, 2000 - Annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2001 - Second annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2002 - Third annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2003 - Fourth annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2004 - Fifth annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2005 - Sixth annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2006 - Seventh annual report.

• The Year in Review, 2007 - Eighth annual report.

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