​Selected Reviews, Essays, and Fiction by Alix

​Short Stories

• "Brother and Sister," The Brooklyn Rail
• "I Eat Men Like Air," Catapult
• "No Holiday for Psychics," Catapult
• "Pharmakon," Hazlitt
• "My Pleasure," The Walrus
• "Witching," CBC Short Story Award winner

• "Daniel Boone, By Himself" (excerpt from All True Not a Lie In It), The Walrus
• "This is for the Common Good,"  Hazlitt​

Non-Fiction

• "Pig (for Oma)," CBC Bloodlines winner
• "Teenage Kicks: Mary Shelley Says #NeverAgain," The Globe and Mail
• "Skating Towards Bethlehem: Life Among BC's Evangelicals," The Globe and Mail
• "Lost and Found: Harriette Wilson," Tin House (print)
• "Daniel Boone's Legend Defines The American Mystique," Smithsonian What it Means to Be American series, Zocalo Public Square
• "Teenage Dream: Life on the Pageant Circuit," The Millions
• "Walking a Mile in Daniel Boone's Moccasins," LitHub
• "Angels of the North: On Happy Valley and Anne Bronte," The Millions
• "Anita Brookner, Queen of the Damned," The Millions
• "The Match Struck by Trump's Gaslighting," Maclean's (Canadian edition of piece below)
• "The Age of Fiction: How Donald Trump Rewrote My Life," The Millions
• Piece in "Closing Time: The Canadian Arts Community Remembers Leonard Cohen," The Globe and Mail
• "How I Wrote All True Not a Lie In It," CBC Books
• Q&A on All True Not a Lie In It, Vancouver Sun
• "The Book That Changed My Life: To the Lighthouse," The Georgia Straight
• "4 Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite CanLit Classic," Flare 
• "Can I Get a Hey? Can I Get a Ho?" OpenBook Toronto

Reviews

• "Sally Rooney's Normal People is a Millennial's Answer to George Eliot," The Toronto Star
• "Helen Oyeyemi's Gingerbread Involves a Fact-Free World," The Toronto Star
• "Will Ferguson's The Shoe on the Roof is a Tale for the Times," The Globe and Mail
• "Eliza Robertson's Demi-Gods is a Poetic Debut Novel," The Globe and Mail
• "Robert Everett Green's In A Wide Country is a Tender Debut," The Globe and Mail
• "Joel Thomas Hynes' We'll All Be Burnt In Our Beds Some Night is a Breakneck New Novel," The Globe and Mail
• "Where I Live Now by Sharon Butala Takes Readers on a Lovely, Dark, and Deep Journey," The Globe and Mail
• "Realism and Magic Clash in Ami McKay's The Witches of New York," The Globe and Mail
• "Mike Barnes's The Adjustment League is a Crackling Portrait of a Troubled Mind," The Globe and Mail
• "Emma Donoghue Displays Keen Observational Power in The Wonder," The Globe and Mail
• "David Bergen's Stranger is an Inventive and Electrifying New Novel," The Globe and Mail
• "David Adams Richards's Principles to Live By Contains a Powerful, Mysterious Narrative Engine," The Globe and Mail
• "Richard B. Wright's Nightfall is an Affecting, Unblinking Stare-Down Between Youth and Age," The Globe and Mail
• "Mothering Sunday Shows why Graham Swift is Considered a Writer's Writer," The Globe and Mail
• "Tracy Chevalier, Deborah Lutz and Claire Harman Show Charlotte Bronte’s Enduring Appeal," The Globe and Mail
• "Jacked-up Myths for Working Stiffs: Kevin Hardcastle's Debris," The National Post
• "Andrew O’Hagan’s The Illuminations is Worth the Trip into the Dark," The Globe and Mail

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