Clark Blaise's background and upbringing have provided him with the materials and the perspective for his highly praised fictional renderings of the quest for identity in a rootless and incoherent Nor...
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Critical Essay by Russell M. Brown
[A North American Education, a] collection of Clark Blaise's fiction, is most impressive, if at times not fully satisfying. Both these facts arise from the u...
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Critical Essay by David Macfarlane
"I am writing a biography of Rachel's life, incorporating your autobiography and a little of my own—and together we might be writing a novel.&#...
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Critical Essay by Don Gutteridge
Like A North American Education, Clark Blaise's second collection of stories [Tribal Justice] invites a thematic reading. It is about tribes and tribalism ...
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Critical Essay by Norman Levine
[In A North American Education and Tribal Justice] Blaise looks at his American upbringing knowing that he is French Canadian from Quebec. And when he makes use of his...
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Critical Essay by John Yohalem
Clark Blaise's first novel ["Lunar Attractions"] covers some familiar ground both for him and for us…. [The] growing-up of a precociously ob...
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Critical Essay by Anthony S. Brennan
Clark Blaise gives us in Lunar Attractions what almost amounts to an anthropological study of the initiation rites that an American boy, David Greenwood, passes t...
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Critical Essay by Russell M. Brown
[For] the three characters who unify [A North American Education,] borders are … elusive things: they are hard to locate precisely, much less to cross. Blais...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lecker
How does a Clark Blaise story feel? The tactile emphasis is crucial. Blaise's characters are inseparable from the things they touch—gooey, sticky, dirty,...
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Critical Essay by Mark Abley
The main characters in Lusts, including [Richard Durgin, widower of poet Rachel Isaacs,] a Chinese-American professor who is writing Isaacs' biography and an Ameri...
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Clark Blaise
Critical Essay by Russell M. Brown
