Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
[We] don't mind in the least that all [the tantalizing mysteries of "Joshua Then and Now"] are dangled before us without resolution un...
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Critical Essay by Jack Ludwig
Mordecai Richler's latest novel, Joshua Then and Now, is, in spite of the vengeance, meanness, envy, hatred, mindless japery and cruelty that trouble its pages, a...
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Critical Essay by Barry Yourgrau
[Joshua Then and Now] is a very funny and often wrenching book,… [a] clamorous, bumpily comic chronicle….
Richler crowds his hero's long voyag...
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Critical Essay by Mark Shechner
The first time Joshua Shapiro [of Joshua Then and Now] and his prospective father-in-law, Senator Stephen Andrew Hornby, meet, neither wastes time on preliminaries. (p...
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Critical Essay by John Lahr
Joshua Shapiro [of Joshua Then and Now] is Mordecai Richler's irresistible incarnation of the Wandering Jew, returned to Canada after two decades of scouring the pl...
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Critical Essay by Mark Harris
We must separate the writer from his or her fictional hero. This is a first rule of literary judgment. Joshua Shapiro is the hero. He is a writer….
Joshua did ...
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Critical Essay by Nora Magid
[Joshua Then and Now] is intermittently wonderful but it is told in such a way that it is occasionally short-circuited. Between the beginning, where he is recuperating fr...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
