The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Alice Munro

  • Canadian Art Monsters

    A CFP, to start, for what may be a doomed endeavour; my sense is that this is still, perhaps, premature? But the MLA Convention will be in Toronto in January 2026, and the CanLit forum panels don’t seem amenable to the topic (although I may submit something, in case I’m wrong). And I’m feeling a…

  • “The Beating of a Child Was By No Means Reprehensible”: Alice Munro, Freud, and the Long Aftermath of Crimes Against Children

    A question from a student about Munro’s Who Do You Think You Are? (the question being whether it’s autobiographical) sent me back to her terrifying story “Royal Beatings” this morning. Then an interview that I read recently had me searching for Freud’s “A Child Is Being Beaten.” This will become a longer critical piece. Just…

  • On Learning Greek: From Classical Mysteries to Alice Munro’s “Silence”

    This will be my fourth and, for now, final foray into the academic mystery novel, and here I will be considering Donna Tartt’s unexpected blockbuster The Secret History; an odd curiosity found in a second-hand book store, Carol Clemeau’s The Ariadne Clue; the recent fiction of Alex Michaelides, including The Maidens; and to end on…