Kill the mall? But why, when in the wake of what’s been dubbed the retail apocalypse, the mall is already…
Author: Ashley Van Elswyk
“One of the advantages of a lifetime spent among tigers is that you are not disappointed when they act like…
So many poets begin their publishing careers with a chapbook: Irving Layton and Margaret Atwood, W B Yeats and Ezra…
In Jocelyne Saucier’s fifth novel, And Miles To Go Before I Sleep (Coach House Books), an elderly woman named Gladys mysteriously vanishes…
“I think we’re living in the Golden Age of Fuck Off. I really do. What the fuck even matters anymore?…
After writing eight books of fiction and non-fiction, Jen Sookfong Lee is about to publish her first poetry collection:…
At fifty I wrote Marrying & Burying, a memoir. Today, twenty-seven years later, in the middle of a pandemic, I…
The publisher of Réjean Ducharme’s debut novel, L’avalée des avalés, isn’t exaggerating in claiming that this first Canadian English translation…
There are two words on the cover of Alex Pugsley’s Aubrey McKee that strike a discordant note in retrospect. Not…
Ubiquitous greeting-card racks promote lofty sentiments about friendship, romance, and marriage (i.e., “Your presence makes life worth living!”), but even…