The unvarnished truth
Links and leads to reviews, critical articles, and articles that are critical.
Selected reviews
- review of The Origin of Species by Emily Donaldson (Toronto Star)
- “The Origin of Species,” by Maureen Garvie (Quill & Quire)
- goodreads.com (reviews and ratings of The Origin of Species by readers)
- fantasticfiction.co.uk (review of The Origin of Species)
- ‘What Shall I Do Then With Jesus,’ by Ron Charles (Christian Science Monitor review of Testament @ powells.com)
- Review of Testament from Quill & Quire @ reviewsof books.com
- ”Ricci’s Testament,” by Brian Bethune (Maclean’s magazine)
- “End of Innocente,” by Roland Merullo (Boston Globe review of Where She Has Gone @ boston.com)
- Bemrose, John. “Review of Where She Has Gone by N. Ricci.” MacLean’s 110.42 (1997): 98.
- Commonweal 130.(Sept 12, 2003): p35. Review of Testament.
- Gessel, Paul. “Ricci Tackles Taboos.” Review of Where She Has Gone. N. Ricci. Ottawa Citizen Dec. 1997: E1.
- Guttman, Naomi. “Magical Complexity.” Review of Lives of the Saints. N. Ricci. Matrix 32 (1990): 74-5.
- McSweeney, Kerry. “Ecce Homo.” Review of Testament. N. Ricci. Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 179-80.
- Marshall, Tom. Rev of Lives of the Saints. N. Ricci. Quarry 39.3 (1990) 85-87.
- McKay, Ally. “A Gentle and Wise Novel: Review of Lives of the Saints.” N. Ricci. Event 20:1 (1991): 148-50.
- Mirolla, Michael. “Intensity Slips in Ricci’s Second Novel.” Review of In A Glass House. N. Ricci. Halifax Daily News 6 Feb. 1994: 45.
- ____. “Relentlessly Serious: Ricci Novel Could Stand a Bit of Lightness.” Review of Where She has Gone. N. Ricci. Halifax Daily News 4 Jan. 1998: 45.
- Pivato, Joseph. “After the Saints.” Review of In A Glass House. N. Ricci. Canadian Literature 150 (1996): 177-78.
- Rooke, Constance. Review of Lives of the Saints. N. Ricci. Malahat Review 92 (1990): 114.
- Robertson, Ray. Review of Where She Has Gone. N. Ricci. Books in Canada 26.9 (1997): 4-5.
- Stoffman, Judy. “Darkness Lights Ricci’s Imagination.” Review of Where She Has Gone. N. Ricci. Toronto Star 27 Sept. 1997: K7.
- Yanofsky, Joel. “Haunting Refrain of What-ifs: Nino Ricci completes Trilogy on Italian Immigrant’s Story.” Review of Where She Has Gone. Montreal Gazette 13 Sept. 1997: H3.
Selected critical essays
- Besner, Neil. “Lives of the Saints.” Essays on Canadian Writing n47 (Fall 1992 n47): pp69(5).
- Canton, Licia. “The Clash of Languages in the Italian-Canadian Novel,” in Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Ed. Lianne Moyes et al. Toronto: Guernica, 2004.
- Imboden, Roberta. “The hyperbolical project of Cristina: a Derridean analysis of Ricci’s Lives of the Saints.” The Dalhousie Review 72.n1 (Spring 1992): pp38(14).
Kuester, Martin. “Lives of the Saints.” Canadian Literature n132 (Spring 1992 n132): pp176(2). - Mullen, Amanda. “Neither here nor there: redirecting the homeward gaze in Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints, In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 36.2 (Summer 2004): p29(22).
- Niccoli, Gabriel. “Between two strange and distant shores: fragments of personal connectedness to Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints trilogy.” New Quarterly 93 (Winter 2005): p131(12).
- Rimmer, Mary. “Nino Ricci: a big canvas.” Studies in Canadian Literature 18.2 (Annual 1993): p168-84.
- Tuzi, Marino. The Power of Allegiances: Identity, Culture and Representational Strategies. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 1997.
- Zucchero, Jim. “Migraton, Identity and Hybridity in Nino Ricci’s Novels,” in The Dynamics of Cultural Exchange. Ed. Licia Canton. Montreal: Cusmano Communications, 2002.
