Previous reviews
Book reviews are listed alphabetically by author reviewedMany NIH reviews are of old but still important books; for example, the review below of Lament for a Nation discusses the serious consequences this book has had for Canada.
Books:
Jacob Abbott, Rollo in London (and a discourse on New Improved Travel Writing)
J. R. Ackerley
Will Aitken, Realia/William J. Thomas, The Dog Rules
Paul D. Allison, Missing Data/Kevin R. Murphy and Brett Myors, Statistical Power Analysis
Kingsley Amis, Memoirs/Eric Jacobs, Kingsley Amis: A Biography
Gilles Archambault, Parlons de Moi
My Life by Bill Clinton
Emerald Underground by Michael Collins
Autobiographies of Claud Cockburn, Stephen Fry, and Anthony Trollope
Stephen Colbert and others, I Am America (And So Can You!)
Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
The House on the Strand, by Daphne DuMaurier
"The Student as Nigger" by Jerry Farber
"The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster – three reviews
The Synergy Myth, by Harold Geneen
Wolcott Gibbs
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Lament for a Nation by George Grant
Empire Lite by Michael Ignatieff
Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
The Ambiguous Adventure, by Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Frasier
Nice review of Better Living by Mark Kingwell
Tasteless review of Better Living
Review of the preceding tasteless review
The Auction Sale by C. H. B. Kitchin
Streamers Waving by C. H. B. Kitchin/Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
The Border by James Laxer
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger, by Philip Marchand
John Mortimer's autobiographies
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
A Jazz Odyssey, by Oscar Peterson/Four Lives in the Bebop Business by A. B. Spellman
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
R. D. Wingfield's Frost novels (and the TV show based on them)
Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom WolfeOther reviews and articles:
Autobiography
The Lure of the Mystery
CBC-TV in the Balance
Is This TV Necessary?
Whatever Happened to Good Music?
If You Can't be a Sport, Broadcast One
Godwatching
TV the Way God Meant It to Be!
The Big Makeover
Antiques Roadshow Exposed
What the Roadshow Shows
Games, Brains, and English Canada
Potemkin Culture
A Technological Breakthrough!
Better Summer Reading through Technology!
Summer Reading, 2007!
Better Summer Listening!
Good Music Cheap!
All Ugly, All the Time
Passion About The Passion
Your Fall TV Preview, 2003
Your Fall TV Preview, 2007
Your Better Class of Reality
The Importance of Not Being Earnest
What is a Sad Commentary on Our Time?
Law and Order for All
Jackie McLean Is Not Fooling Around
The One True Diva (Etta James)
Someone's Got a Hold on Me (Etta James in concert)
Superfreax of Music
Robertson, We Hardly Knew Ye
Sex Lives of the Great Philosophers
Mr. Rogers Signs Off
Znaimervision
Look on Their Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
The Antidote to Literacy
A Great American Satirist
Star Wars II: Attack of the Thirty-Foot Invisible Lobsters or whatever
The Literary Life
Review of 49 Up by Michael Apted
Technology, Globalization, and Poker
The Dr. Phil Page
