"Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts: Theory and Method for a Reading and Writing Course, by David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky." Reading-Canada-Lecture 5:2 (Summer 1987), 136-139.
"Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English, by Robert Scholes." Inkshed 5:5 (November 1986), 7-8.
"Default Modes and Debugging: Two Conferences." Inkshed 3:5 (November 1984), 7-8.
"Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox, by Linda Hutcheon." English Studies in Canada 9:2 (June 1983), 241-245.
"From Zee to Zed: How Edgar Z. Friedenberg Found There Were More Fundamental Differences Between the United States and Canada than the Pronunciation of his Middle Initial" [Review article: Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada, by Edgar Z. Friedenberg]. Books in Canada 9:8 (October 1980), 24-25.
"A Gospel Tract for the Twice-Born." [Maticil Spray Report, by William Thurlow.] The Last Post 7:6 (November 1979), 46-47.
"The Coup, by John Updike." The Dooryard Post 1:3 (Summer 1979), 25-26.
"Avoiding the Issues." [On the Meaning of the University: Essays Upon the Occasion of the Inauguration of David Pierpont Gardner as Tenth President of the University of Utah, ed. Sterling M. McMurrin.] CAUT Bulletin 26:4 (September 1977), 14.
"Question Time, by Robertson Davies." Queen's Quarterly 83:2 (Summer 1976), 328-329.
"Carbon's Copy, Brennan's Book." [The Carbon Copy, by Anthony Brennan. Journal of Canadian Fiction 4:3 (1975), 176-179.
"Reflections on Book Reviewing and Boredom." The Fiddlehead, No. 100 (Winter 1974), pp. 79-82.
"A Life of Noisy Desperation." [The Coming of Winter, by David Adams Richards.] Canadian Forum 14:646 (November/December 1974), 23.
"What You Get Is What You See." [Review article: Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You, by Alice Munro, and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard.] The Fiddlehead, No 102 (Summer 1974), 113-119.
Novels and Heroes." [Review article: The Book of Eve, by Constance Beresford-Howe and The Lark in the Clear Air, by Dennis T. Patrick Sears.] The Fiddlehead, No. 101 (Spring 1974), pp. 82-88.
"Can Words Mean So Many Different Things?" [The Failure of Educational Reform in Canada, ed. Douglas Myers.] CAUT Bulletin 22:5 (April 1974), 11-12.
"Nail Polish, by Irving Layton." The Fiddlehead, No. 91 (Fall 1971), 102- 104.
"Pruning the Public Schools." [Review article: This Book is About Schools, ed. Satu Repo. The Mysterious East 2:5 (May-June 1971), 31-33.
"Made in Canada: New Poems of the Seventies, ed. Douglas Lochhead and Raymond Souster."The Fiddlehead, No. 89 (Spring 1971), 96-99.
"School Books." [Review-bibliography.]The Mysterious East, 1:10 (September 1970), 29-32.
"Population Pollution & Poverty" [Review article: The Poverty Wall, by Ian Adams, Who Shall Live? by the American Friends Service Committee, and The Population Bomb, by Paul R. Ehrlich.] The Mysterious East, 1:8 (July 1970), 26-28.
"The Cave, by John Newlove." The Fiddlehead, No. 85 (May-June-July 1970), 98-101.
"What is Obscene?" [Books in the Dock, by C. H. Rolph; The Obscenity Laws, by the Arts Council of Great Britain.] The Mysterious East, 1:6 (May 1970), 7-9.
"Night of the Knives, by Robert Coates." The Mysterious East, 1:2 (December 1969), 30-31.
"Notes for a Native Land, ed. Andy Wainwright." The Mysterious East, 1:1 (November 1969), 31.
"Rocky Mountain Foot, by George Bowering." The Fiddlehead, No 80 (May- June-July 1969), 99-101.