"I ... feel forever rooted in Montreal's St. Urbain Street," Mordecai Richler stated in an essay, "Why I Write," collected in Notes on An Endangered Species and Others (1974): "That was my time, my place, and I have elected myself to get it right." In...

One of Canada's most accomplished writers, Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) produced screenplays, novels, children's literature, and essays. At the time of his death, he was acknowledged as Canada's leading curmudgeon for his witty insights on topics such...

I first met Mordecai Richler in 1969 when Cocksure, his wonderful comic novel about London in the Sixties, was published in paperback, writes Carmen Callil. I had never met a funny Canadian before, and Mordecai, seriously funny on the page, was even better...

MORDECAI RICHLER was through and through a Montrealer, writes Frank Gray [further to the obituary by Peter Guttridge and Carmen Callil, 5 July ]. He loved the city for the poor Jewishness of St Urbain Street, the scruffy neighbourhood that was his playground and...

Elizabeth Hay, a former radio journalist who long hoped to write a novel about her "golden summer" working in northern Canada in the 1970s, won the lucrative Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Late Nights on Air.""I am very thrilled and very lucky — so...

In the following essay, Brenner compares Richler's dualistic representation of the Jewish response to the Holocaust in his fiction and nonfiction with the works of A. M. Klein, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Adele Wiseman.

In the following essay, Craniford surveys the critical reaction to Solomon Gursky Was Here and investigates Richler's inspirations for the Gursky family. Craniford notes that the “most compelling quality of Richler's novel is the fact that it is based on and made out of other works of fact and fiction.”

In the following essay, Robbeson analyzes the function of various textual strategies in St. Urbain's Horseman, contending that each strategy provokes a specific moral judgment.