Author: Ashley Van Elswyk

Fugue States is a real oddity of a novel, but one that makes you wonder how much of its oddness…

An American Canadian wrestles with family and racism in the age of Trump.

The most reprinted work by Canada’s first bestselling author depicts a world of widows and widowers.

How the Canadian Opera Company’s 2017 re-staging of the opera “Louis Riel” continued a legacy of marginalization and forgetting

John Metcalf and Fraser Sutherland review Nick Mount’s cultural history of the mid-twentieth-century CanLit boom.

Culturally rootless millennials are the focus of Morissette’s funny and perceptive second novel.

The flawed-but-canonical literature series is dead, apparently.

A presumptuous nominee on the hubris, and shame, of Giller Prize forensics.

Journalist Elaine Dewar’s The Handover looks at the truth behind the sale of M&S, Canada’s best independent publisher, to foreign multinational Random House.

Linda Spalding’s “A Reckoning” follows the fortunes of a slave-owning family in 1850s Virginia after a visit from a Canadian abolitionist on the eve of the Civil War.