The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-review

  • Ghost Writers: Generative AI, Intellectual Property, and the Trope of the Hidden Author

    Grading concerns are converging with literary critical ones this weekend as I type less-than-patient messages to class members who wrote an analysis of an autobiographical sketch in which they misrepresent the topic, themes, events, and personages. Thanks, ChatGPT, for that hallucination. Very much appreciated. But intriguingly (one finds the silver lining), mystery fiction is also…

  • Food, Feminism, and Mystery Fiction

    Beth Kalikoff, writing in 2006, called attention to the plethora of mystery novels, most of which were enduring series, that incorporated food directly into the murder plot and not always because the victim was poisoned. As she described, while noting that only limited critical attention had been paid to date to the phenomenon, mystery novels…

  • The Mystery of Bestsellers

    As part of my Certificate in Creative Writing at U of T, I’ve been trying to take a course on how to write bestsellers, but it’s been cancelled a couple of times in a row (surely not for lack of student interest?). I’m signing up again for a spring session, but the instructor is ominously…