The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Alice Munro

  • On Still Not Knowing Greek, Alice Munro, and Theresa Kishkan

    Illness, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath I’m re-reading Virginia Woolf this week: To the Lighthouse, and some letters and re-edited journals, with a dip into Quentin Bell’s early 1970s and rather severe biography for additional context. Bell is, of course, Woolf’s nephew, and I came to his biography back in high school, before I read…

  • “We Can’t Ask Alice”: Our Munro Roundtable at MLA 2026 in Toronto

    Huge thanks to Sarah Caskey, Nadine Fladd, and Julie Rivkin for their wonderfully thoughtful and engaging presentations. This was a tricky session for me, and I appreciated the guidance of Munro scholars–notably Maggie Redekop and Naomi Morgenstern, during the planning stage–as well as Lorraine York, whose work on Atwood and celebrity helped shape Nadine Fladd’s…

  • Considering Alice Munro

    I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on a Munro chapter, in my Canadian women’s crime fiction book. The revisions since the spring have been rather more extensive than I’d anticipated. I thought I was writing about how Munro depicts violent crime, or suspicion that crimes have been committed, in a range of…