Author: Ashley Van Elswyk

Benge Atlee’s thriller “Black Feather” (1939) was intended as escapist fiction—then history got in the way.

Our contest winner argues that Christian Bök’s “experimental” work pushes genetic, not gender boundaries.

In his funny, astute essay, Jared Young probes notions of masculinity and national identity via Russell Smith’s self-defeating male characters.

In Catalunya, one is Catalan first — unless you’re from elsewhere in Span — and Spanish second.

Jason Freure takes us on a palimpsestic, geo-historical-literary tour of an iconic Montreal neighbourhood.

“The plate just bent and bent,” she is saying. “I told them. The Slave Craton’s the oldest rock on the planet. It doesn’t move. It was never going to move. Something else had to.”

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“Honeymoon,” “Casseroles, or, Delicacy in Small Town America,” and “Instinct”

Rosenblum’s first novel mimics the form of her successful short stories; perhaps overly so.

Skilled writing and nuanced characterization feature in David Bouchet’s immigrant tale.