When I first read Don DeLillo’s White Noise as an over-eager third-year English major, it felt like a revelation. This…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
“What do you get out of it?” Jeffrey asked me one day, a couple of years ago, when…
Oshawa, Ontario-born, Vancouver-based Jay Hosking’s Toronto-set first novel, Three Years With the Rat (Hamish Hamilton), combines time travel to sci-fi noir…
Two months before Canada was to host the G8 and G20 leaders in Toronto, Conservative senator Nancy Ruth told women’s…
Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf), Vancouver-born, Montreal-based Madeleine Thien’s latest novel, explores the Cultural Revolution and 1989 Tiananmen demonstrations through the eyes…
ANGELS and Seraphim, bygone poets, distinguished guests, it is my great honour to stand before you this evening in this heavenly…
EARLY in 2006 I signed a contract with Knopf Canada to write a biography of Mordecai Richler. The advance was in…
For several decades now, McGill professor Robert Lecker has been one of the best academic commentators on the CanLit profession. That…
A graphic rendering of a walk taken by Charlie Huisken, owner of Toronto’s (now-defunct) landmark bookshop This Ain’t the Rosedale Library, and his son, Jesse, to some of their favourite city haunts.
It’s common wisdom that sex sells. In the rarified world of cafe sandwich boards, however, literature and the pithy quote remain the go-to.