Tag: Alice Munro
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“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…
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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…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 