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Sept. 8, 2010
World & Nation
Mordecai Richler, the Canadian social critic and novelist best known for chronicling Jewish life in Montreal in books like “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” died Tuesday.
July 4, 2001
Books
Someone--maybe the author--must have made a short-run PR decision to “advertise” Daniel Richler as the son of iconoclastic, Canadian-Jewish Mordecai Richler.
Sept. 14, 1992
We have waited 10 years for Mordecai Richler’s new novel, “Solomon Gursky Was Here.”
June 17, 1990
When Mordecai Richler burst on the literary scene in 1960 with his novel “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” there were cheers and hosannas from critics who had “discovered” him.
Jan. 25, 1998
Leaning on a cane, Canadian firebrand Mordecai Richler hobbled into the lobby of Montreal’s posh Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
April 19, 1990
In ordinary times, novelist Mordecai Richler delights his fellow Canadians--to say nothing of many other literate North Americans--with his deft coming-of-age tales set in the Jewish Montreal of his youth.
April 21, 1992
There are more French Canadians alive now than ever before, and they possess more wealth and power than at any point in the past; yet their politics is based on the profoundly held belief that they are in danger of disappearing into the fog of history like some preliterate tribe of the Amazon.
June 21, 1992
Travel & Experiences
” . . . a worthy addition to the oeuvre, a work of a storyteller at the height of his powers who has come to suspect there is more to the world than meets even the most penetrating eye.”
July 1, 1990
Your Feb. 16 article (“Showtime Is About to Hit Streets of Montreal”), about Montreal’s 350th birthday, prompts this urgent suggestion: Anyone preparing for a trip to the province of Quebec must read “Oh Canada!
May 10, 1992