Reviews
The Composer’s Craft (Stravinsky, The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971, by Stephen Walsh) The Nation, 29 May 2006)
The Spy Who Vamped Hitler? (The Mystery of Olga Chekhova, by Antony Beevor) National Post, 16 October 2004
The Land the World Forgot (Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall, by Andrew Meier) Newsday, 21 December 2003
Cozy Days Inside Stalin’s Kremlin (Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore) National Post, 22 November 2003
A Forgotten Genocide (The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, by Peter Balakian) Newsday, 5 October 2003
France’s Dark Years (Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation, by Robert Gildea) Newsday, 10 August 2003
The Soviet Gulag’s Haunting Legacy (Gulag: A History, by Anne Applebaum, and Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag by Janusz Bardach and Kathleen Gleeson) National Post, 14 June 2003
Searching for Janácek (Janácek: A Composer’s Life, by Mirka Zemanová) Andante, January 2003
Composing a Life (Beethoven: The Music and the Life, by Lewis Lockwood) Newsday, 22 December 2002
First day of the Third World (The Tsar’s Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima, by Constantine Pleshakov) National Post, 13 April 2002
The Return of Beauty (Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in 20th-Century Art, by Wendy Steiner) National Post, 22 December 2001
Engineer Discovered Earth’s Strata on Company Time (The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, by Simon Winchester) National Post, 18 August 2001
Jumping Around in the Twentieth Century, Without Pop Music (A Terrible Beauty, by Peter Watson) National Post, 10 February 2001
The Genius of the Future, Recycled in the Present (Romanticism and its Discontents, by Anita Brookner) National Post, 18 November 2000
On the Trail of Lenin’s Muddy Galoshes (Lenin, A Biography, by Robert Service) National Post, 7 October 2000
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Not Quite Redeemed (Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, by Douglas Murray) National Post, 5 August 2000
Hit on the Critic (John Ruskin: The Later Years, by Tim Hilton) National Post, 6 May 2000
Chaplin, Film, Fashion and Other Insights (Feeding the Eye: Essays, by Anne Hollander) National Post, 27 April 2000
Paris, Sans Chopin (The Parisian Worlds of Frédéric Chopin, By William G. Atwood) National Post, 25 March 2000
It’s OUR Problem (Days of Defeat and Victory, by Yegor Gaidar) National Post, 5 March 2000
Bristling With Life (M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, by Peter Robb) National Post, 26 February 2000
The Art of Collaboration (Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773, by Gauvin Alexander Bailey) National Post, 22 January 2000
Not to Know Me is to Love Me (Balthus: A Biography, by Nicholas Fox Weber) National Post, 27 November 1999
America’s First Real Supermodel (American Venus, by Diane Rozas and Anita Bourne) National Post, 23 October 1999
Another Kremlin Apologist? (The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov) National Post, 18 September 1999
Matisse: All Business or All Pleasure (Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse, by John O’Brian) National Post, 14 August 1999
The Empire Strikes Out (After the Collapse: Russia Seeks Its Place as a Great Power, by Dimitri K. Simes) National Post, 17 May 1999
A Borrowed Vision, A Purloined Past (From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, by Matthew Spender) National Post, 15 May 1999
Cashing In the Canadian Way (The Consummate Canadian: A Biography of Samuel Edward Weir Q.C., by Mary Willan Mason) National Post, 27 March 1999