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with Tom Mitchell, P.S. Burn After Reading: The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet <\/em><\/strong>Espionage in Canada<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming August 2026<\/p>\n

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Are We Postmodernism Yet? And Were We Ever?<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u00a0<\/em>New York:\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 328 p.<\/p>\n

Review in University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em><\/a> 91:3 (August 2022): 262-4<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/em><\/a>with Tom Mitchell,\u00a0When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens Committee Broke the\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Winnipeg General Strike<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, 423 p.<\/p>\n

Short-listed, 2011 John W. Dafoe Book Prize<\/a>
\nExcerpts in National Post<\/em>, 19, 20, 21, 22 October 2010
\nReview in Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 9 October 2010<\/a>
\nReview in Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, 483 p. <\/em>
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\nNamed one of CBC’s Top 100 pop culture mementoes of 2008
\nWinner,\u00a0 Canadian Jewish Book Award 2009, Scholarly Category<\/a>
\nWinner, Gabrielle Roy Prize<\/a>
\nReview in Globe & Mail, <\/em>26 April 2008<\/a>
\nExcerpt in\u00a0Globe & Mail<\/em>, 26 April 2008, A1, F1, F8
\nReview in\u00a0 Canadian Literature<\/em>, #207 (Winter 2010): 103-7<\/a>
\nReview in Montreal Review of Books<\/em><\/a>
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Translated into French\u00a0as\u00a0Mordecai Richler:\u00a0 Entre s\u00e9duction et provocation<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, trans. Genevi\u00e8ve Deschamps, <\/strong>Qu\u00e9bec City:\u00a0 Septentrion, 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Walk<\/a><\/em>with Tom Mitchell, Walk Towards the Gallows: The Tragedy of Hilda Blake, Hanged 1899<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2002, 311 p.\u00a0 Reprinted University of Toronto Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

Winner,\u00a0 2002 Margaret McWilliams Award<\/a>
\nReview in\u00a0 English Studies in Canada<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong> Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997, 224 p.<\/p>\n

Review in\u00a0 Modern Fiction Studies<\/em><\/a>
\nShortlisted, Raymond Klibansky Prize<\/p>\n

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Articles<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Reinhold Kramer & Tom Mitchell, \u201cMcClung\u2019s Guide to Canadian Moles: a K-Branch Commentary on Cold War Ideological Spies,\u201d Michel S. Beaulieu, David Ratz, Kari Alenius, & Tyler Wentzell, eds. Active Measures: Historical and Contemporary <\/em>Perspectives of Foreign Interference, Espionage, and National Security<\/em> (working title) UBC Press (forthcoming)<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2024: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 95:3 (August 2026) forthcoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2023: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 94:3 (August 2025) 303-27.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2022: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 93:3 (August 2024) 315-37.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2021: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 92:3 (August 2023) 222-245.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2020: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 91:3 (August 2022): 167-189.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2019: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 90:3 (Summer 2021): 286-309.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2018: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 89:3 (Summer\u00a0 2020): 446-469.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2017: Established Fiction,\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, 88:3 (Summer 2019): 18-40.<\/p>\n

\u201cCyberculture and Ethics in Generation A <\/em>and Super Sad True Love Story<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0The <\/em>(Un)Certain Future of Empathy in Posthumanism, Cyberculture and Science Fiction<\/em>, <\/em>ed. Elsa Bouet, Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, ebook, 2015, 41-53.<\/p>\n

\u201cLetters in Canada 2013: Emergent Fiction,\u201d\u00a0University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em> 84:3 (Summer 2015): 1-24.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Daniel de Leon Drew Up the Diagram:\u2019 Winnipeg\u2019s Seditious Conspiracy Trials of 1919-1920,\u201d\u00a0(with Tom Mitchell), Canadian State Trials Volume 4:\u00a0<\/i>Security and\u00a0<\/em>the Limits of <\/em>Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-39.<\/em> Susan Binnie, Eric Tucker & Barry Wright eds.,\u00a0Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2015, 217-60.<\/p>\n

\u201cRichler, son of Klein.\u201d \u00a0Failure\u2019s Opposite:\u00a0 Listening to A.M. Klein<\/em>.\u00a0 Norman Ravvin & Sherry Simon, eds., Montreal & Kingston:\u00a0 McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2011, 169-78.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduction,\u201d Animal Stories of Ernest Thompson Seton <\/em>[Chinese language ed.], Shangwu Wang, trans., Lanzhou, China, 2011, 261-4.\u00a0 (Invited)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stone Diaries<\/em> and the Literature of Construction.\u201d Mosaic to Salad Bowl:\u00a0 Essays on <\/em>Canadian Writing<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Ravindara Pratap Singh.\u00a0 Lucknow, 2010.\u00a0 (Invited)<\/p>\n

\u201cNationalism, the West, and The Englishman\u2019s Boy<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Essays on Canadian Writing<\/em> 67 (Spring 1999): 1-22.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 1919 Winnipeg General Strike and Margaret Sweatman\u2019s Fox<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Canadian Literature<\/em> 160 (Spring 1999):\u00a0 50-70.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoris Lessing.\u201d\u00a0 Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 261:\u00a0 British Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers since 1960<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. Darren Harris-Fain.\u00a0 GaleNet online edition.\u00a0 38 p.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe River Horsemen<\/em> and Milton\u2019s Theodicy.\u201d\u00a0 David Williams:\u00a0 A Novelist from the Canadian <\/em>Prairie<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. B.N. Singh.\u00a0 Bara Bazar, Bareilly, India:\u00a0 Prakash Book Depot, 1999, 110-129. (Invited)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore and After Postmodernism:\u00a0 David Williams\u2019 The River Horsemen<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 David<\/em>\u00a0Williams:\u00a0 A <\/em>Novelist from the Canadian Prairie<\/em>.\u00a0 Ed. B.N. Singh, 88-109.\u00a0 (Invited)<\/p>\n

\u201cSection 8 of the Charter<\/em> and English-Canadian Fiction.\u201d\u00a0 Dalhousie<\/em> Review<\/em> (Special issue on privacy) 78:3 (Autumn 1998):\u00a0 385-413.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Contemporary Canadian Long Poem as System:\u00a0 Friesen, Atwood, Kroetsch, Arnason, McFadden.\u201d\u00a0 Bolder Flights:\u00a0 Essays on the Canadian Long Poem<\/em>.\u00a0 ed. Frank Tierney & Angela Robbeson.\u00a0 Ottawa:\u00a0 University of Ottawa Press, 1998, 101-114.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Williams.\u201d\u00a0 The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature<\/em>.\u00a0 2nd ed.\u00a0 Eugene Benson & William Toye eds.\u00a0 Don Mills, ON:\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 1997, 1181-82.\u00a0 (Invited)<\/p>\n

\u201cIm\/maculate:\u00a0 Some Instances of Gnostic Science Fiction.\u201d\u00a0 State of the Fantastic<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Nicholas Ruddick ed.\u00a0 Westport, CT:\u00a0 Greenwood Press, 1992, 49-58.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Machine in the Ghost:\u00a0 Time and Presence in Varley\u2019s Millennium<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 Extrapolation<\/em> 32:2 (Summer 1991):\u00a0 156-69.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada, then Scatology, then the novels of David Williams.\u201d\u00a0 Studies in Canadian <\/em>Literature<\/em> 15:2\u00a0(1990):\u00a0 180-93.<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cEscape Attempt,\u201d [excerpt from Hilda Blake<\/em>, a screenplay], Ecclectica<\/em>, Summer 2009,<\/p>\n

Edited Books<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Under the Prairie Sky\/ Sous le ciel des Prairies<\/em>.\u00a0 With Rosanne Gasse, John Blaikie, Sophie Beaul\u00e9, Rachel Major, and Laurence V\u00e9ron.\u00a0 Brandon:\u00a0 Canada Games Society, 1997.<\/p>\n

Book Reviews<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n[review of Michael Redhill, The Trial of Katterfelto<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, forthcoming, September 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlexis\u2019s beguiling stories feel like a search for home\u201d [review of Andr\u00e9 Alexis, Other Worlds<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 31 May 2025, G1..<\/p>\n

\u201cJapanese siblings navigate myriad of wartime woes,\u201d [review of Terry Watada, Hiroshima Bomb <\/em>Money<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 2 November 2024, G2.<\/p>\n

\u201cRed Alert,\u201d [review of Gwynne Dyer, Intervention Earth: <\/em>Life-Saving Ideas from the World’s <\/em>Climate Engineers<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 13 April 2024, G1.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Right Track\u201d [review of Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 8\u00a0October 2022, E4.<\/p>\n

\u201cNear-future pandemic story packs a punch\u201d [review of Robert McGill, A Suitable Companion for <\/em>the End of Your Life<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 25 June 2022, D5.<\/p>\n

\u201cSplice of Life\u201d [review of Amy Webb & Andrew Hessel, The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to <\/em>Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 2 April 2022, D2.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrin\u2019s purgatory a riotous Midwestern mess,\u201d [review of Randy Boyagoda, Dante\u2019s Indiana<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 16 October 2021, D.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurreal Stories\u201d [review of Andr\u00e9 Alexis, The Night Piece: Collected Short Fiction<\/em>] Winnipeg <\/em>Free Press<\/em>, 17 October 2020, D.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity ushered in a profound paradigm shift,\u201d [review of Tom Holland, Dominion: How the <\/em>Christian Revolution Remade the World<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 11 January 2020, D4.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlexis in fine philosophical form in new novel,\u201d [review of Andr\u00e9 Alexis, Days by Moonlight<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 30 March 2019, D3.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerrotta\u2019s ambitious new fiction falters,\u201d [review of Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher<\/em>], Winnipeg Free <\/em>Press<\/em>, 29 October 2017, D20.<\/p>\n

\u201cDigging into the past: Nobel winner Pamuk uncovers layers of morality in new novel,\u201d [review of Orhan Pamuk, The Red-Haired Woman<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 26 August 2017, D18.<\/p>\n

\u201cMissed connections: Importance of networks highlighted in haphazard new book,\u201d [review of Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 18 June 2016, Books E13.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Love story’s characters fantastically flawed,\u201d [review of Trevor Cole, Hope Makes Love<\/em>],\u00a0Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 21 November 2015, Books G4.<\/p>\n

\u201cTomorrow Never Knows,\u201d [review of David Bergen, Leaving Tomorrow<\/em>], Winnipeg Free,\u00a0<\/em><\/span>20 September 2014, Books G5 (feature review).<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the Flood,\u201d [review of Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 31 August\u00a02013, Books, G5 (feature review).<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Beach<\/em>: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Dale Barbour. University of Toronto<\/em>\u00a0Quarterly<\/em>, \u201cLetters in Canada 2011,\u201d forthcoming in 82.3 (Spring 2013).<\/p>\n

\u201cBergen offers Hope,\u201d [review of David Bergen, The Age of Hope<\/em>] Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 8 Sept\u00a02012, Books <\/em>4-5 (feature review).<\/p>\n

Winnipeg\u2019s Great War:\u00a0 A City Comes of Age<\/em>.\u00a0 Jim Blanchard.\u00a0 University of Toronto Quarterly<\/em>, \u201cLetters in Canada 2010,\u201d 81.3 (Spring 2012): 696-7.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarey hits again with charming, disturbing novel,\u201d [review of Peter Carey, The Chemistry of <\/em>Tears<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 19 May 2012, Books 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cZiggy really sang, screwed up eyes\u2026\u201d [review of Paul Trynka, David Bowie: \u00a0Starman<\/em>], Winnipeg <\/em>Free Press<\/em>, 6 August 2011, Books 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cRichler biography covers a lot of territory\u201d [review of Charles Foran, Mordecai:\u00a0 The Life and <\/em>Times<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 23 October 2010, Books 4-5 (feature review).<\/p>\n

\u201cIntensely historical, intensely personal look at man who achieved little,\u201d [review of Rana Dasgupta, Solo<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 24 July 2010, Books 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Year of the Flood<\/em> intriguing sequel to Oryx and Crake<\/em>,\u201d Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 12 September 2009, Books 4 (feature review).<\/p>\n

Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature<\/em>, eds. Anita Heiss & Peter Minter, Canadian Journal <\/em>of Native Studies<\/em> 29:1&2 (2009): 300-301.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsian Tigers\u201d [review of Aravind Adiga, Between the Assassinations<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 21 June 2009, Books 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cOutrageous satirist Richler as seen by realist Vassanji\u201d [review of M.G. Vassanji, Mordecai <\/em>Richler<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 26 April 2009, Books 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cVassanji traces path through India\u2019s complexity\u201d [review of M.G. Vassanji, A Place Within:\u00a0 <\/em>Rediscovering India<\/em>], Winnipeg Free Press<\/em>, 30 November 2008, Books 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cUp-Market Sweatman\u201d [review of Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down With Peter<\/em>], Canadian Literature<\/em> 178 (Autumn 2003):\u00a0 172-3.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOld Home\/New Home\u201d [review of Erika de Vasconcelos, My Darling Dead Ones<\/em>; Harold Rhenisch, Carnival<\/em>; Rabindranath Maharaj, Homer in Flight<\/em>], Canadian Literature<\/em> 173 (Summer 2002): 181-83.<\/p>\n

A Thousand Homes<\/em>, Terry Watada; Wormwood<\/em>, Vermouth, Warphistory<\/em>, Charles Noble. \u00a0Journal <\/em>of Canadian Poetry<\/em> 12 (1997): 108-112.<\/p>\n

Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction<\/em>, James Ruppert.\u00a0 Canadian Journal of Native <\/em>Studies<\/em> 16:2 (1996): 390-93.<\/p>\n

Transreal<\/em>, Rudy Rucker.\u00a0 Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter<\/em> 196 (April 1992):\u00a0\u00a043-4.<\/p>\n

\u201cVarious Feminist SF Approaches\u201d [review of Where No Man Has Gone Before:\u00a0 Women and <\/em>Science Fiction<\/em>, Lucie Armitt ed.], Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter<\/em> 191\u00a0(October 1991): 23-4.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAn Important Study\u201d [review of The Genres of Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/em>, Frederik N. Smith ed.], Science\u00a0 <\/em>Fiction Research Association Newsletter<\/em> 187 (May 1991): 38-9.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Signature Event Cantext<\/em>, Stephen Scobie.\u00a0 Dalhousie Review<\/em> 71 (Winter 1991\/2):\u00a0 517-19.<\/p>\n

Newspaper Articles<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cThe Battle for Winnipeg\u201d [excerpt, When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 19 October 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalling the Shots\u201d [excerpt When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 20 October 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cRounding Up the Ringleaders\u201d [excerpt When the State Trembled<\/em>] National Post<\/em>, 21 October 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cStacking the Jury\u201d [excerpt from When the State Trembled<\/em>], National Post<\/em>, 22 October 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Urbain\u2019s hit man\u201d [excerpt from Mordecai Richler<\/em>], Globe & Mail<\/em>, 26 April 2008, A1, F1, F8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  with Tom Mitchell, P.S. Burn After Reading: The Kellock-Taschereau Commission and Soviet Espionage in Canada.\u00a0 Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming August 2026     Are We Postmodernism Yet? And Were We Ever? \u00a0New York:\u00a0 Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 328 p. Review in University of Toronto Quarterly 91:3 (August 2022): 262-4     with Tom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":-50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/920"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/kramer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}