Since 1997 I have reviewed new books for a local newspaper. Unless an online publication is indicated, that is where each of these reviews first appeared. Canadian authors are highlighted in red.

The First Five Years: Reviews, 1997-2001
The Second Five Years: Reviews, 2002-2006

Asylum by André Alexis (at the Toronto Star Axis by Robert Charles Wilson (at Quill & Quire) Bang Crunch by Neil Smith Black Man by Richard Morgan (at the Toronto Star) Brother Dumb by Sky Gilbert (at Quill & Quire) Beautiful Children by Charles Bock The Commons by Matthew Hughes (at Quill & Quire) Coureurs de Bois by Bruce MacDonald Duma Key by Stephen King (at the Toronto Star) The End of the Alphabet by C. S. Richardson Exit Ghost by Philip Roth The Flush of Victory by Ray Smith (at the Toronto Star) Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino Hitting the Charts by Leon Rooke How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet (at Quill & Quire) The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones The Mole Chronicles by Andy Brown On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski Planet Reese by Cordelia Strube Remainder by Tom McCarthy The Road by Cormac McCarthy Shining at the Bottom of the Sea by Stephen Marche (at Quill & Quire)  This Will All End in Tears by Joe Ollman Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace Zero Gravity by Sharon English Black River by Kenneth Sherman   Second Opinions brief reviews of award-winning books

Against Thought: Writing Iraq The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby The Age of Confession by Neil Bissoondath (at Quill & Quire) Angel of Vengeance by Ana Siljak (at Quill & Quire)  Bambi vs. Godzilla by David Mamet Black Mass by John Gray Blood River by Tim Butcher The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg Canadian Literature in English by W. J. Keith (at the Toronto Star) The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen Dead Certain by Robert Draper Death in the Haymarket by James Green Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee The Enemy at Home by Dinesh D'Souza The Ethical Imagination by Margaret Somerville (at Quill & Quire) The Fall of the House of Bush by Craig Unger The Indian Mutiny by Julian Spilsbury Invaders from the North by John Bell It's Not News, It's Fark by Drew Curtis Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York (at Quill & Quire) Marx's Das Kapital by Francis Wheen The Mess They Made by Gwynne Dyer (at Quill & Quire) Novels in Three Lines by Felix Fénéon On the Wealth of Nations by P. J. O'Rourke Other People's Money by Neil Forsyth with Elliot Castro Plato's Republic by Simon Blackburn The Qur'an by Bruce Lawrence The Schreiber Theory by David Kipen Shakespeare Revealed by René Weis Shut Up He Explained by John Metcalf (at the Toronto Star) Visual Shock by Michael Kammen Web of Deceit by Barry Lando Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore