Category: Liann Zhang
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2025 Mystery Preview
A very short post, mostly filled with praise. I’ve been reading a number of forthcoming novels; thank you, NetGalley, for the ARCs. A few favourites that I will be sharing with friends: Belinda Bauer’s The Impossible Thing, which is a nigh impossible thing to describe without giving away too much. So I will fall back…
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Humour in Mystery Fiction: Liann Zhang’s Julie Chan Is Dead
Today and tomorrow will be busy: I have to review the copy edits (which look thoughtful and accurate) for a chapter in the new MLA volume about teaching Atwood, due out next fall. And then I’ve committed to quick turn-around peer reviewing of a couple of articles on Canadian mystery fiction. It’s been a pleasure…
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Alice Munro, Again: “Fiction”
But first, for something completely different. Readers may have noticed that there is a decided lack of ethnocultural/racial diversity among the authors I’m considering in this project. It’s a challenge in the field of crime fiction in Canada and it leads to, for instance, Pamela Bedore’s excellent book devoting a chapter to Ausma Zehanat Khan’s…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 