Writings – Essays

Literary Influences
Globe and Mail, January 2012

Six Ways to Woo a Reader
CNQ, 82, 2011

The Here and Now
Brick, Winter, 2011

Supersized – Big Canadian Novels
The Walrus, June, 2011

“Yesterday’s Canadians”
The Walrus, April, 2011

“Dear Maw”
The Globe and Mail, October 23, 2010

Liu Xiaobo’s Incarceration
The Globe and Mail, October, 2010

Miscellany with a Mission
The Literary Review of Canada, September 2010

The Slow Apocalypse
The Globe and Mail, November 6, 2009

The Collective Amnesia of China – and the West
The Globe and Mail, June 2009

The Last of the Wild Jews
The Walrus, December 2008

The Satanic Verses at 20
The Globe and Mail, October 2008

An American Type of Sadness
The Walrus, March 2007

The Paradox of Paradise
The Walrus, October 2006

It’s a Porn World After All
The Walrus, March 2006

Literary Landscapes: A Novel Approach
The Walrus, January 2006

A Civilizing Influence
The Walrus, August 2005

The Life Quixotic
The Walrus, May 2005