The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontë’s Unrequited Passion

    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!…

  • 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…