Since 1997 I have reviewed new books for a local newspaper. Unless otherwise indicated, that is where all 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
8 x 10
by
Michael Turner
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
Asylum
by
André Alexis
Atmospheric Disturbances
by Rivka Galchen
Automatic World
by
Struan Sinclair
Axis
by
Robert Charles Wilson
Bang Crunch
by
Neil Smith
Black Man
by Richard Morgan
Blackstrap Hawco
by
Kenneth J. Harvey
Boldface Names
by
Shinan Govani
Bookweird
by
Paul Glennon
Brother Dumb
by
Sky Gilbert
Beautiful Children
by Charles Bock
The Commons
by
Matthew Hughes
Coureurs de Bois
by
Bruce MacDonald
Dance With Snakes
by Horacio Castellanos Moya
The Death of Bunny Munro
by Nick Cave
Dragonflies
by
Grant Buday
Duma Key
by Stephen King
The End of the Alphabet
by
C. S. Richardson
Eva's Threepenny Theatre
by
Andrew Steinmetz
Evidence
by
Ian Colford
Exit Ghost
by Philip Roth
Fall
by
Colin McAdam
February
by
Lisa Moore
Filaria
by
Brent Hayward
Fishing for Bacon
by
Michael Davie
The Flush of Victory
by
Ray Smith
The Frankenstein Murders
by
Kathlyn Bradshaw
Grotesque
by Natsuo Kirino
Hall of Best Knowledge
by
Ray Fenwick
Heaven Is Small
by
Emily Schultz
Hitting the Charts
by
Leon Rooke
Horror Story
by
Robert Boyczuk
How the Dead Dream
by Lydia Millet
Just After Sunset
by Stephen King
The Killing Circle
by
Andrew Pyper
The Lost Highway
by
David Adams Richards
Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster
Mister Pip
by Lloyd Jones
The Mole Chronicles
by
Andy Brown
The Murder Stone
by
Louise Penny
On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan
Only Revolutions
by Mark Z. Danielewski
Planet Reese
by
Cordelia Strube
Poe's Children
Ed. by Peter Straub
Pygmy
by Chuck Palahniuk
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
by Tim Hamilton
Real World
by Natsuo Kirino
Remainder
by Tom McCarthy
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
by
Stephen Marche
Stripmalling
by
Jon Paul Fiorentino
Stunt
by
Claudia Dey
This Will All End in Tears
by
Joe Ollman
Thought You Were Dead
by
Terry Griggs
Tokyo Year Zero
by David Peace
A Week of This
by
Nathan Whitlock
Zero Gravity
by
Sharon English
Black River
by
Kenneth Sherman
The Essential Don Coles
Ed. by
Robyn Sarah
The Essential George Johnston
Ed. by
Robyn Sarah
The Essential P. K. Page
Ed. by
Arlene Lampert
and
Théa Gray
Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets
Ed. by
Zachariah Wells
Pure Product
by
Jason Guriel
What if red ran out
by
Katia Grubisic
Second Opinions
brief reviews of award-winning books
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale
Against Thought: Writing Iraq
The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby
Age of Betrayal
by Jack Beatty
The Age of Confession
by
Neil Bissoondath
Angel of Vengeance
by Ana Siljak
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
by Anne C. Heller
The A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by Harold Schechter and David Everitt
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
Carbon Shift
Ed by
Thomas Homer-Dixon
Censored 2009
Ed. by Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth
Cheap
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
The Crimes of Paris
by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The Cult of the Amateur
by Andrew Keen
The Dark Side
by Jane Mayer
Dead Certain
by Robert Draper
Death in the Haymarket
by James Green
The Devil's Gentleman
by Harold Schechter
Edith Wharton
by Hermione Lee
Empire of Illusion
by Chris Hedges
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by Michael Newton
The Enemy at Home
by Dinesh D'Souza
The Ethical Imagination
by
Margaret Somerville
A Fair Country
by
John Ralston Saul
The Fall of the House of Bush
by Craig Unger
The Great Derangement
by Matt Taibbi
"Have You Seen . . . ?"
by David Thomson
Hitler's Empire
by Mark Mazower
How Fiction Works
by James Wood
The Indian Mutiny
by Julian Spilsbury
Invaders from the North
by
John Bell
It's Not News, It's Fark
by Drew Curtis
The Lily Pond
by
Mike Barnes
Literary Celebrity in Canada
by
Lorraine York
Lost in Cyburbia
by James Harkin
Lost in the Meritocracy
by Walter Kirn
The Man Who Sold the World
by William Kleinknecht
Marx's Das Kapital
by Francis Wheen
The Mess They Made
by
Gwynne Dyer
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
Poe
by Peter Ackroyd
The Qur'an
by Bruce Lawrence
A Report on the Afterlife of Culture
by
Stephen Henighan
The Schreiber Theory
by David Kipen
Selected Essays
by
Clark Blaise
Shakespeare Revealed
by René Weis
The Sheikh's Batmobile
by
Richard Poplak
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
by
Norman Baillargeon
Shut Up He Explained
by
John Metcalf
Tar Sands
by
Andrew Nikiforuk
Tear Down This Myth
by Will Bunch
The Three of Us
by Julia Blackburn
True Crime: An American Anthology
Ed. by Harold Schechter
The Truth About Canada
by
Mel Hurtig
Vanished Smile
by R. A. Scotti
Visual Shock
by Michael Kammen
Web of Deceit
by Barry Lando
What Is America?
by
Ronald Wright
Who Killed Jackie Bates?
by
Bill Waiser
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
by
Jeff Rubin
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier
Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
by
Glenn Kay