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