The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: books

  • 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…

  • 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…