Tag: academia
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Academic Crimes and Misdemeanours, and the Acute Vulnerability of Grad Student Researchers
This blog post was inspired by The Guardian‘s top-ten 2025 list of long-form features. This article, by Scott Sayare, is fascinating: The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins. I’d missed it, back in May when it appeared, during my busiest teaching season. It’s necessary reading…
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Harold Pinter’s Silences and David Lodge’s Voluble Academics
Does Harold Pinter’s Old Times deal with a murder? Or perhaps two? Does it describe a long fantasy, or perhaps a delusion, played out in the mind of an unstable woman who killed her friend two decades earlier? That’s one of the more intriguing explanations I’ve been reading for the enigmatic play, with its famously…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 