The Hub
What went wrong with the CBC? The Hub, Oct 2025
Lost Boys by James Bloodworth The Hub, Aug 2025
These are the last days of Canadian television The Hub, Nov 26, 2024
How the train made Canada The Hub, Nov 11, 2024
Mavis Gallant: Montreal Standard Time The Hub, Oct 22, 2024
How Much Does a Primer Minister Matter, Anyway? The Hub, Sep 23, 2024
Canadian Notes and Queries
On Andree Michaud’s novel Trembling River | Canadian Notes & Queries | In print Spring/Summer 2023
The Toronto Star
What do we expect from history podcasts? | online and in print (August 8, 2020)
The Best Concerts Available Online Now: Diane Dufresne, Laurie Anderson, Julie Andrews, Eurythmics, Talking Heads | online (July 10, 2020) and in print (July 11, Saturday issue)
Best of Canadian Podcasts, Spring 2020 | online (May 10, 2020) and in print (May 12)
Opera News
Hansel & Gretel at the Canadian Opera Company - a review of the Feb 2020 production | May 2020 issue
How We Got Here: A Bifurcated History from Aleksandar Hemon | September 2019 issue | in print and online
A review of Marie-Renée Lavoie’s novel ‘Autopsy of a Boring Wife’ (Anansi, 2019; transl. Arielle Aaronson) | April 2019 Issue | In print
Literary Review of Canada
La Boheme | COC | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | May 2019
Otello | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | May 2019
Cosi fan tutte | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | February 12, 2019
Elektra | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | January 28, 2019
Hadrian | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | October 15, 2018
Eugene Onegin | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | October 2, 2018
The new production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena does not thrill - a review (online here, in print Fall 2018)
The COC revives Robert Lepage's production of The Nightingale and Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky - a review (Fall 2018 issue)
Opera Canada
BookForum
A review of Anne Garreta's book Not One Day (translated by Emma Ramadan) - April/May issue, 2017 (PDF)
Globe and Mail
Wholenote (selection)
Verbotenlieder, or Women Take on Men’s Operatic Hits (December 2018)
Conduct! Every Move Counts (Nov 2017)
21C Festival Opening Night: Brian Current, Samy Moussa, Matthew Aucoin & Unsuk Chin and the COC Orchestra (May 2017)
Toronto Consort in Elena by Cavalli (May 2017)
Soundstreams' Odditorium: A Deft Distillation (Mar 2017)
Adrianne Pieczonka sings Die Winterreise (Feb 2017)
DailyXtra
Canadian Queer Cinema Primer: On The Romance of Transgression by Thomas Waugh (Jan 2007)
Women in Love: On Diana Souhami's Wild Girls (Apr 2006)
Books in Canada
A review of Sex and Ethics. Essays on Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life, edited by Raja Halwani (18(1) 2008, pp. 103-5)
Social Semiotics
For a lot more reviews, head to my Substack and to the WholeNote magazine.