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

Elixir of Love at the Canadian Opera Company (Oct 2017)

The Marriage of Figaro at Opera Atelier (Oct 2017)

Arabella at the Canadian Opera Company (Oct 2017)

The Marriage of Figaro at the COC (Feb 2016)

A review of Lend Me Your Character by Dubravka Ugresic (G&M Books, 2005)

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)

Hungry for Beauvoir - a Violette Leduc biopic (Sept 2013)

A Touch of absurdity - Slovenian film Dual (May 2014)

Midnight Cowgirls - Medeleine Olnek's The Foxy Merkins (May 2014)

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.