Author: Ashley Van Elswyk

Frances Shelley Wees’ Toronto-set 1958 mystery revolves around the disappearance of a sweet but dull-witted teenaged domestic servant.

Ten anecdotes about what it means to eat in “Toronto’s Brooklyn”

Erin Robinsong’s poetry debut is charismatic, confessional.

In 1970 Kenneth Orvis took a break from thrillers to write a novel about evangelism. He would not rise again.

When it comes to the rules of the road, don’t let the movies be your guide.

Confessing my sins to an anonymous priest at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral was a much more public experience than I imagined it would be…

A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature

“The work of mourning doesn’t count—at least in contemporary North American culture—as “work.” Though, I suggest that grieving actually is some of the hardest work we are consigned to do.”

From an upcoming collection of stories inspired by the paintings of Alex Colville.

Doug Jones died in early March last year, just a few short months before this selection of his poems…