The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Iceland Noir: Margrét Ann Thors’s First Novel

    I love this book. I’ve had a lucky streak of wonderful books: fiction and nonfiction, crime and suspense but also domestic/romantic “women’s fiction,” like Kerry Clare’s new novel, Definitely Thriving. Clare has a lot of fun with the idea of a segregated women’s literature: her protagonist, Clemence, fresh out of a marriage that she blew…

  • Children’s Crime Fiction: The Chalet School and the Right’s Embrace of The Hardy Boys, Racism and All

    I’ve had a busy week of drafting applications, and one of these (completed! submitted!) required multiple short essays documenting my interest in mountain literature. I resisted citing the Chalet School novels as my earliest immersion in serial fiction in a mountain setting, but it’s hard for me to think about alpine lit without a wistful…

  • More Raymond Chandler Evenings

    Another storm, this one with hail, and some more Raymond Chandler thoughts as I listen to Robyn Hitchcock play “Yesterday’s Rain” in an online concert. We’ve been watching Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Altman’s The Long Goodbye this week. It’s a deliberately paced work with oodles of groovy atmosphere, transposed, as it is, to…