Selections from my "In Print" literary column, originally published in Hour, the Montreal arts and culture weekly.

The Generations Have Survived: Remembering the Jewish legacy of Czentochov, Poland
The Iron Box: An article about Henry Lilienheim's The Aftermath: A Survivor's Odyssey Through War-Torn Europe.
Serials That Go "Crunch!": Publishers of scientific journals are bankrupting our universities.
The Information Barons: Who will control the media in the new century?
Suzie Sexpert and the Attack of the Feminist Pornographers: What more do I need to say?
Book Fairs and the Crucible: Montreal author P. Scott Lawrence on the Art and Craft of Writing
The King is Dead! Long Live the King!: A eulogy for Jack "King" Kirby, one the greatest comic book artists of all time.
Ici, Radio Canada : An interview with former CBC newsanchor Knowlton Nash, author of The Microphone Wars.
Me, Myself and I: An interview with sexologist and masturbation expert Betty Dodson, author of The Art of Selflove.
The Midwife's Poems: A review of poet Julie Bruck's first major work, The Woman Downstairs.
Backstage at the Puppet Show: An Interview with Eric McLuhan, son of media guru Marshall McLuhan.
The Lyrical Generation: François Ricard on Quebec's early boomers and the theft of youth.
Razing the Treasurehouse: The tragic end of Montreal's movie palaces.
Managing Ourselves to Death: Stephen Schecter and the managed destruction of civilization.
Resisting Uncle Sam's Embrace: David Orchard and the Fight for Canada.
A Labour of Lieb: One woman's battle for Yiddish.

edgeMedia 1: Why the Net isn't your father's Oldsmobile, and an interview with cartoonist Joe Matt. (Enrage, 1994)
edgeMedia 2: The Net still isn't your father's Oldsmobile, and the zine revolution. (Enrage, 1994)
Net Denizens: An interview with Joy Jones, Internet uber-early adopter. (Enrage, 1994)
Three-Dimensional Media: A review of two early CD-ROM magazines. (Enrage, 1994)
Enrage on the Net: Enrage Magazine becomes one of the world's first magazines on the World Wide Web.* (Enrage, 1994)
Net Works: The building of the National eDream. (Quill & Quire,1995)
Dummies and Morons and Idiots, Oh No!: Origins of the "For Dummies" phenomenon. (Hour, 1994)
Windows Dressing: Windows 95 hysteria inspires a flood of guide books from publishers (Quill and Quire, 1995)
Faster Than a Speeding Datapacket: Comics and the Internet. (Sympatico Netlife, 1996)
Hacker alert! Computer criminals have become icons of the info age. But threats to network security are varied and many. (Quill and Quire, 1997)
Studying at Microsoft U: Computer professionals get a career-enhancing boost from the company's certification program.(Quill and Quire, 1997)
What is Linux? A threat to Windows? Or a passing fad?( Quill and Quire, 1998)
Commonspace: Seize the Power of the Collective Reviewed by Mark Shainblum. (Report on Business Magazine, 2000)
Why Java Still Matters: Four years after its release, this versatile programming language is more important than ever. (Quill and Quire, 1999)
Mac's long comeback trail: The iMac and OS X are putting the innovative computer maker back on the map.(Quill and Quire, 1999)
The End of Distance: McGill professor Ralph Harris champions a revolution in distance learning technology. (Unpublished, 1999)
Get with the Program: Learn to speak like a geek! (Quill and Quire, 1999)
There is a Free Lunch: Shareware and freeware can meet many of your software needs. (PWAC Contact, 2000)
Beyond Y2K: The year ahead in computer books.(Quill and Quire, 2000)
Home Sweet Habicon: Canadian media guru Paul Hoffert evokes the long-delayed promise of networked communities (Quill and Quire, 2000)
WAP for Beginners: A look at the emerging field of entertainment and communications on mobile phones (Quill and Quire, 2000)
Will it get worse? PC industry woes spill over into computer book trade. (Quill and Quire, 2001)
Making the Web Sit Up and Beg: How to get what you need from the Internet. (Tech Talk column, PWAC.ca, 2002)
2002: A Computing Odyssey: A late-2001 look-ahead at the year to come in computing and computing books. (Quill and Quire, 2001)

*Interesting aside: Enrage, published by Mitch Joel, was arguably one of the earliest magazines in the world to go online. When I laid eyes on the World Wide Web for the first time, on a Sun SPARCstation running Mosaic, my words were already there. That was an experience.

Patients to tell their stories at IVF conference. (McGill Reporter, 2007)
New and renewed, McGill gets twelve Canada Research Chairs. (McGill Reporter, 2007).
Sparks to Fly at the Trottier Symposium. (McGill Reporter, 2007).
Blood-cell pioneer marks 50th anniversary: Dr. Thomas Chang ushered in a revolution with his invention of the artificial blood cell. (McGill Reporter, 2007).
McGill Seals Research Bonds with India: A team of McGill researchers visited India to sow the seeds of future scientific partnerships. (McGill Reporter, 2006).
Vicky Kaspi: Star of Stars: McGill astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi takes home the prestigious Steacie Prize in the Natural Sciences. (McGill Reporter, 2006).
Better Living Through (Green) Chemistry: McGill researchers are at the forefront of a whole new kind of chemistry that relies on water instead of toxic solvents and turns CO2 into biodegradable plastic. You might say that they're saving the world, one molecule at a time. (McGill Reporter, 2006).
The Fifth Language: A review of Robert Logan's groundbreaking look at computers and education. (Quill & Quire, 1995)
The Musical Phrases of Margaret Atwood: A feature about McGill professor Natalie Cooke, author of Margaret Atwood: A Biography. (McGill Reporter, 1996).
A Fine Quebec Whine: Quebec writers who write in English feel forgotten by the rest of Canada. (Quill & Quire, 1996)
Academia's First Lady of Darkness: Carol Davison and Dracula's 100th. (University Affairs, 1997)
Marketing Your Scholarly Wares: An article about academic publishing. (McGill Reporter, 1998).
And On The Seventh Year...: An article about academic sabbaticals. (McGill Reporter, 1999).
Doomsdays "R" Us: Late 1999 musings about Y2K, the millennium and apocalypse myths. (SF Canada Website, 1999)
The End of Distance: McGill professor Ralph Harris champions a revolution in distance learning technology. (Unpublished, 1999)
People of The Books: The quest for meaning and identity in recent Jewish titles. (Quill & Quire, 1999)
In the Land of Mutant Animators: A review of Bill Plympton's 1999 graphic novel Mutant Aliens. (Artstar.com, 1999)

Canadiana: The New Spirit of Canada: An ongoing superhero webcomic created with comics illustrator Sandy Carruthers. (Debuted December, 2003).
The Break Inspector: A short science fiction story, originally my entry in the International Mark Twain Writing Competition, and later published in the October/November 2004 issue of Would That It Were, an online science fiction magazine. Sadly, that turned out to be WTIW's last issue, so I've moved the story back to my own website.
Playing Solitaire: A prose tale of superhero angst, love, destiny, Americans, Canadians and Hebrew, originally published in the anthology Playing Solitaire and Other Stories (Cyber Age Adventures Press, 2001)

Comics, Standing Up: An article about alternative comics. (Onset Magazine, 1994).
Anarchy on the Drawing Board: An article about the Montreal independent comics scene. (The Montreal Gazette, 1995)
Faster Than a Speeding Datapacket: Comics and the Internet. (Sympatico Netlife, 1996)
Comic Escape: The funny pages flee their genre prison. (Quill & Quire, 1996)
Northern Lights: Canadian science fiction writers make their mark in the US. (Quill & Quire, 1996)
Star power: Star Trek, Star Wars book lines gear up as anniversaries loom. (Quill & Quire, 1996)
Science fiction struggles to find its way. (Quill & Quire, 1996)
In the Land of Mutant Animators: A review of Bill Plympton's 1999 graphic novel Mutant Aliens. (Artstar.com, 1999)
The William Gibson Interview: Full text of a 1993 interview with the godfather of cyberpunk, co-conducted with Matt Friedman. (Lost Pages, 2003)
Internet: The Fan's Frontier: Science fiction and fantasy buffs are creating independent films inspired by classic TV series and movies, usually distributed online. The most popular have audiences in the millions. (The Montreal Gazette, 2005).