I was working in a second-hand bookstore on Toronto’s Queen Street West—still a funky, grungy street in 1982—when someone walked…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
Jack London’s epistolary relationship with Canadian socialist agitator Wilfrid Gribble
Although the stories of A Dream of a Woman are arresting and captivating, they are disheartening too. From shorter stories…
Audrée Wilhelmy’s audacious novel White Resin is a dark fairy tale, saturated in myth and images of the natural world.…
How Canadian university libraries used the Covid crisis to further limit public access
NXIVM exploded into public consciousness in 2017, when Canadian actress and ex-member Sarah Edmondson revealed she’d been coerced, via kompromat,…
For those readers not in the know, Andrée Michaud is a Quebecoise author whose novels have been nominated for…
Literature that self-consciously explores language is nothing new, but Patricia Robertson manages to articulate her own electrifying turns of phrase…
When I was young, and an aspiring writer who loved putting words together but often struggled to come up with…
Carrie Jenkins—Cambridge-educated Canada Research Chair in Philosophy and author of three previous books on knowledge of arithmetic, the nature of…