Selected articles by Anna Porter
2025
2024
- Yuval Noah Harari has some ideas about why people are so angry right now, Globe and Mail
- Can Canada’s bookstores be saved? The CEO of America’s largest chain has a simple solution. Toronto Star
- Anna Porter: Remembering the slain Jewish children of France. National Post
- Hungary’s Viktor Orban has taken a page straight out of Putin’s playbook. How will the EU respond? The Globe and Mail
2023
- Andrey Kurkov on bringing ordinary stories out of Ukraine’s ‘grey zone’, The Globe and Mail
- George Soros’s legacy will be his ideas – and they will outlive him, The Globe and Mail
- Shelf Portrait: Anna Porter, The Richler Library Project
2022
- Writers in Peril, Write Magazine
- Why should you care about the Hungarian elections? Because the future of an ‘illiberal democracy’ is at stake, The Globe and Mail
2021
- Playing Poker with Eichmann, Tablet
- Why a proposed deal between two American publishing giants matters to the Canadian books sector, The Globe and Mail
2020
- Like the creature itself, our fascination with vampires will never die, The Globe and Mail
- Allan Fotheringham (1932–2020), Write, the magazine of The Writers’ Union of Canada
- Review: A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago, by Lennie Goodings, Literary Review of Canada
2019
- The writing on the Wall: Thirty years later, Eastern Europe’s post-Communist experiment is in peril, The Globe and Mail
- Seventy-five Years Later, Hungary Still Hasn’t Come to Terms with its Role in the Holocaust, Quillette
2018
- The Making of a Philanthropist, Peter Munk 1927-2018, Queen’s Quarterly
- This Terrible Business Has Been Kind to Me, Queen’s Quarterly
- Review: Yossi Klein Halevi’s Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor looks for spiritual common ground, The Globe and Mail
- George Soros has had a lifetime of sustained antisemitic tropes, The JC
2017
- Jack Rabinovitch, 1930-2017, Queen’s Quarterly
- Alligators in Their Midst, M&S in the Seventies, CNQ100th
- Say the Names, The Dorchester Review
- Michael Ignatieff’s looming battle with Hungary, Maclean’s
2016
In Praise of an Original, Queen’s Quarterly- Hungary: a New Threat to the EU, Maclean’s
In Memoriam, George Jonas 1935 – 2016, Queen’s Quarterly
George Jonas, Hungarian Review - Punishing Russia’s murderous kleptocrats, National Post
- Optimism thrives at London Book Fair, Quill & Quire
2015
- In business and beyond, George Soros barely stops for breath, Globe and Mail
- Let a hundred readers bloom: Chinese literature goes global, Maclean’s
- Canadians enjoyed strong presence at BEA, despite significant Chinese delegation, Quill & Quire
- A Journey of a Thousand Years, Queen’s Quarterly
- The Soros Solution, National Post
2014
- ‘A Living Horror’: A Statue Rewrites Hungary’s Messy History, Maclean’s
- Remembering the Diversity, Creativity and Significance of Poland’s Jewish Community, National Post
- Farley Mowat 1921–2014, Queen’s Quarterly
- Remembering Farley Mowat Hazlitt
- Goreé Island: The Door of No Return, Queen’s Quarterly
- Scottish Referendum Leaves Behind an Air of Bitterness, National Post
- A Surreal Time to be in Edinburgh, Watching History Unfold and, Possibly, a Great Power Unraveling, National Post
2013
- Houghton Revisited: Walpole Masterpieces from the Hermitage, Queen’s Quarterly (Winter)
- Hungary’s Far Right Turn, Maclean’s
- The Mexican Suitcase, Queen’s Quarterly (Fall)
- The Story of Vera Gran and the High Price of Survival, Globe and Mail
- Budapest’s Monsters, National Post
- Amour: No Gentle End, Queen’s Quarterly
2012
- In Normandy, It’s Easy to Forget – but Better to Remember, Globe and Mail
- Shakespeare and Company: At Home with Books, Queen’s Quarterly (Winter)
- Shot in the Back, Toronto Life
- The Hunger Angel by Herta Mueller, review, Globe and Mail
- Hungary: Turning Right–and fighting with the EU, Maclean’s
- Midnight in Paris: A Movable Feast, film review, Queen’s Quarterly
2011
- James Does Justice to Jane Austen, review, Globe and Mail
- Imre Kertész: Writing the Impossible Novel, review excerpt, Queen’s Quarterly
- A Heartbreaking Novel About the Man Who Ruled the Lodz Ghetto, review, Globe and Mail
- Bigotry Keeps Roma on the Run, The Star
- Underground by Antanas Sileika, review, LRC
- King of the Independents, Quill and Quire
- The Dangers of Being a Writer in Putin’s Russia, Maclean’s
- Joyful and Irrelevant, at the London Book Fair Books and Authors are No Longer the Main Topic, Quill and Quire
- A Religious Contradiction, Partly Truth and Partly Fiction, Globe and Mail
- Troublesome, but Well Worth the Trouble, Globe and Mail
- Time to Lead: The Shaky State of Canadian Book Publishing, Globe and Mail
- Return of the Iron Fist?, Maclean’s
2010
- The Lonely Passion of Herta Müller, Queen’s Quarterly
- Don’t Get the Rug Pulled Over Your Eyes in Morocco, Globe and Mail
- Exclusive: Anna Porter Talks to Stieg Larsson’s Life Partner, Globe and Mail
- An Inside Look at How Germany Has Rebuilt Itself, Maclean’s
2009
- The Minister of Minorities, Maclean’s
- General Jaruzelski, Globe and Mail
- Slovak Language Laws, Maclean’s
- Classic Building Aficionado Michael Tippin, Globe and Mail
- The 92nd Street Y, Globe and Mail
- Fascism, The Next Generation, Globe and Mail
- Sandor Marai: Embers Globe and Mail Focus
- Second-Rate Citizens, Maclean’s
- Solidarity, Globe and Mail
2008
- Hungary: No Georgia on their Minds, Maclean’s
- Poland: Between the Devil and the EU, Maclean’s
- Gratitude by Joe Kertes, review, LRC
- Searching for Schindler, review, Globe and Mail
2007
- Ferenc Gyurcsany, Maclean’s
- Diary of Petr Ginz, Globe and Mail Review
2006
- The Best Coffee House in the World, En Route
- There is No Middle Path, Maclean’s
- Sebestyen and Korda review, Globe and Mail
- The Face of Revolution, Globe and Mail
2004
- A Storybook Life: Jack McClelland, Maclean’s
- Jack McClelland, Globe and Mail
2003
- Words, Guns and Anguish, Maclean’s
2002
- In Search of Dracula, Globe and Mail
- The World of Fear and Horror: Israel, Maclean’s
2001
- Vestiges of Empire, Russia, Maclean’s
- Robert Lantos, Time Magazine
- Haida Gwaii, Globe and Mail
Selected Essays by Anna Porter
- “A Canadian Education,” in Passages: Welcome Home to Canada, Doubleday Canada, 2002
- “The Master Storyteller,” in Writing Life, ed. Connie Rooke, McClelland & Stewart, 2006