Tag: book-review
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Amy Stuart Writes Terrific Domestic Thrillers
I don’t read a lot of domestic thrillers, and I recently excised the genre from my book project because the ones by Canadian authors, both male and female–Linwood Barclay and Shari Lapena may be our best-known international exports in this sub-genre–are almost never set in identifiable Canadian locales. And the whole point of my project…
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“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…
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Nancy Drew Enters the Public Domain
Ninety-five years after their original publication, the first four Nancy Drew novels (all published in 1930) have just entered the public domain in the United States. Without having glanced at them in more than four decades, I can still picture all of the covers and conjure up some plot details from The Secret of the…
