In the following essay, Goldstein investigates the influence of the popular writer Danielle Steel on Canin's writing career.
In February, Houghton Mifflin will publish Emperor of the Air, st...
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In the following review, Pols commends the haunting novellas collected in The Palace Thief.
Ethan Canin is a publisher's dream. He's young (33), handsome, went to the best schools (St...
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In the following review, Scott regards the novellas in The Palace Thief as engaging and provocative and compares them to the work of Anton Chekhov.
“Medicine is my lawful wife,” wrote...
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In the following essay, Kaufman provides a brief overview of Canin's life and career.
A young woman recently called Random House pleading for a set of the galleys of Ethan Canin's The...
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In the following review, Saari offers a favorable assessment of The Palace Thief.
Canin's four stories [in The Palace Thief] are novella-length and formally distinctive. The style is decepti...
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In the following essay, Aarons investigates the central thematic concerns of Canin's novella Batorsag and Szerelem.
“Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother.”
(Gene...
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In the following interview, Canin discusses how his medical knowledge affects his fiction, the origins of the stories in Emperor of the Air, and his creative process.
[Frumkes]: Ethan Canin, whose ...
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In the following laudatory review of Emperor of the Air, Steinberg asserts that Canin “informs a technical expertise with a keen sense of the dynamics of the human psyche.”
Canin�...
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In the following review, Yardley considers Emperor of the Air to be an auspicious debut.
For this slender volume of short stories, Ethan Canin, a 27-year-old student at Harvard Medical School, has ...
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In the following favorable review of Emperor of the Air, Sokolov notes that Canin's stories center on the dynamics within families.
Houghton Mifflin, the distinguished Boston publisher, has ...
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In the following positive assessment of Emperors of the Air, Gurewich suggests that Canin's writing is too technically proficient.
In the title story of this collection [Emperor of the Air],...
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In the following excerpt, Birkerts delineates the defining characteristics of the stories in Canin's short story collection Emperor of the Air.
According to a recent profile in Publishers We...
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In the following review, Kramer contends that The Palace Thief “constitutes a broadening of literary scope for a writer of enormous talent and charm.”
Chekhov, Bulgakov, Maugham, Celi...
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In the following mixed review of The Palace Thief, Caldwell argues that the only real weakness in the volume “is a lack of range, rather than depth; each of these stories stands tall alone, but...
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In the following positive review of The Palace Thief, Brandmark maintains that what makes Canin “an exceptional writer rather than just a clever one is his combination of wit, compassion and mo...
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Critical Essay by William Goldstein
