The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Con Artists, Scam Artists, Escape Artists: My Zenias and Atwood’s The Robber Bride

    “You might become a detective. You might become a con artist yourself. Or, a blend of the two: you might become a novelist.” Margaret Atwood on writing “The history of the world, my sweet Oh, Mr. Todd, ooh, Mr. Todd What does it tell? Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat” Atwood’s recent…

  • Kathy Reichs’s Déja Dead: A Great Series Begins

    This week has been a Faulknerian one for me: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” I’ve experienced multiple forms of déja vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. So it’s a perfect time to return to the 1997 first novel in Kathy Reichs’s celebrated series of crime novels featuring forensic anthropologist…

  • On Still Not Knowing Greek, Alice Munro, and Theresa Kishkan

    Illness, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath I’m re-reading Virginia Woolf this week: To the Lighthouse, and some letters and re-edited journals, with a dip into Quentin Bell’s early 1970s and rather severe biography for additional context. Bell is, of course, Woolf’s nephew, and I came to his biography back in high school, before I read…