In his ground-breaking essay on the uncanny, Sigmund Freud describes the phenomenon as “that class of the terrifying which leads…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
Authors have various reasons for adopting pseudonyms. One of the more interesting is the bet against celebrity. Stephen King took…
Hailed as being in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” I imagined that Benjamin Hertwig’s debut, Slow…
The third novel by Lebanese-Canadian playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad opens with Wahhch Debch, a Lebanese man now living in…
Maxi stands at the morning count with her right cheekbone bulging and purpled, red lightning forked in the white of…
In a time of supposed reconciliation, what role do monuments to colonialization play?
Dorothy Dumbrille’s 1945 novel, “All This Difference”
Profound political and aesthetic shifts followed the departure of Montreal poetry’s heir apparent.
Sheep, penguins, and military history all play roles in the remote archipelago’s reinvention of itself.
Bourgeois Anglo attitudes undercut the radicalism of Scott Symons’ 1967 gay novel, “Combat Journal for Place d’Armes.”