The action in Amy Jones’ Thunder Bay-set debut novel, We’re All in This Together (McClelland & Stewart), radiates around the family fallout…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
Spend half an hour wandering through the stacks of a decent sized library and you’ll quickly be overwhelmed by the…
The photographs appear periodically on my Facebook wall. Friends and acquaintances post them and reminisce about simpler, and if not better,…
Montreal-born Kerry Lee Powell grew up in Antigua, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She has one book of poems, Inheritance (Biblioasis)…
A poem published in The Walrus’ March 2016 issue contains an error. The well-intentioned copyeditor who saw the poem just before it went to print…
Nathan Whitlock’s second novel, Congratulations on Everything (ECW), is a Cheers-meets-The-Office styled dark comedy that, according to the dust jacket,…
The month I started writing this piece I got into my first bike accident. The only really notable thing about…
Set in 1989, in a volatile, economically depressed Ontario manufacturing town (based on his native Oshawa), Andrew F. Sullivan’s debut…
On a cool night in May 2015, our fifteen-year-old son, Finn, went missing for three hours. For most parents of…
Trivial Pursuit almost seems an answer to a trivia question today, but in 1982 it enjoyed a magical Christmas as…