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
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
Asylum
by
André Alexis
(at the
Toronto Star
)
Atmospheric Disturbances
by Rivka Galchen
Axis
by
Robert Charles Wilson
Bang Crunch
by
Neil Smith
Black Man
by Richard Morgan (at the
Toronto Star
)
Blackstrap Hawco
by
Kenneth J. Harvey
(at the
Toronto Star
)
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
Dragonflies
by
Grant Buday
(at the
Toronto Star
)
Duma Key
by Stephen King (at the
Toronto Star
)
The End of the Alphabet
by
C. S. Richardson
Eva's Threepenny Theatre
by
Andrew Steinmetz
Evidence
by
Ian Colford
(at the
Toronto Star
)
Exit Ghost
by Philip Roth
Filaria
by
Brent Hayward
The Flush of Victory
by Ray Smith (at the
Toronto Star
)
The Frankenstein Murders
by
Kathlyn Bradshaw
Grotesque
by Natsuo Kirino
Hall of Best Knowledge
by
Ray Fenwick
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
(at the
Toronto Star
)
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
Real World
by Natsuo Kirino
Remainder
by Tom McCarthy
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
by
Stephen Marche
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
Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets
Ed. by
Zachariah Wells
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
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
(at the
Toronto Star
)
Censored 2009
Ed. by Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth
Cheever: A Life
by Blake Bailey
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
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
Edith Wharton
by Hermione Lee
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
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
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
by
Norman Baillargeon
Shut Up He Explained
by
John Metcalf
(at the
Toronto Star
)
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
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
Young Stalin
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
by
Glenn Kay