The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Feminist Revenge Fantasies, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence

    And today, because I’m grappling with this in two other forms of writing, a brief foray into intimate partner violence and proposed Canadian legislation about coercive control. My former Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins, twice brought forward legislation in the House of Commons to address a gap in the law related to “a pattern of…

  • On Winter Writing and Solitude and Nordic Noir

    This week I’m teaching Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, which is just about my favourite book; students will read only one excerpt from this poignant, tragi-comic, closely observed, skinny little book. So I hope that will be sufficient for them to see in Nelson what I see (and what so many see): the preeminent CNF author of…

  • “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…