Just what are the police for? With recent calls for their defunding (whatever that may mean) it’s a question that’s…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
“Some viruses have envelopes. Some letters are best left unopened. Now my mother is on the phone telling me to…
The writing life’s irreplaceable satisfactions.
When we read, the experience of reading is not always just the book in front of us. It is also…
“Whew! Did you see that?” We’re driving to Havana and Debbie, my wife, is speaking. I’m sitting in the front…
As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa Mehta–directed feature film, Kamal Al-Solaylee…
Truth proves elusive in Tom Ardies’ 1971 Cold War thriller about a millionaire presidential candidate in possible cahoots with the Russians.
Saul Bellow’s oft-downplayed Canadianness is key to his best fiction
Representing the climate crisis in fiction.
Arielle Twist’s elegant debut ends with a powerful postscript: “Ah-hay, my Indigiqueer and Two- Spirit kin, this is for…