| Essays
Leonard Cohen’s Afterlife
The Walrus, December 2018
There’s no plan B
Literary Review of Canada, Summer 2018
Rethinking the Walls
Globe and Mail, July, 2017
Postnational Canada
The Guardian, January, 2017
Experiment in Pluralism
Globe and Mail, September, 2016
The View From Shore
Globe and Mail, July, 2016
The Canadian Experiment
Globe and Mail, June, 2016
True Test of Citizenship
Globe and Mail, December 2015
What Beijing learned from Tiananmen: Democracy isn’t needed for prosperity
Globe and Mail, May 2014
Publishing Planet Lolita
National Post, May 2014
Secret history: the woman who ruled 19th-century China
Globe and Mail, November 2013
Censorship in the digital age: ‘Words are more powerful than ever’
By Charles Foran and John Ralston Saul
Globe and Mail, April 2013
End of Story: the rise and fall of CanLit
The Walrus, March 2013
Our Kids Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, 2012
Will the leadership choices in China and the U.S. make a difference?
Globe and Mail, November 2012
With Mo Yan, Nobel committee gives a nod to the might of modern China
Globe and Mail, October 2012
The rise and fall, and rise again, of the mysterious Timothy Mo
Globe and Mail, June 2012
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
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