The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: canada-u-s-relations

  • Louise Penny on CBC’s Bookends, and the World’s Longest Undefended Border

    Much of my knowledge of Canadian literature has been gleaned from CBC radio. The voices of Eleanor Wachtel and Shelagh Rogers are instantly recognizable to me. And in recent years, Louise Penny’s wonderfully throaty speaking voice has become just as familiar. I missed her early years as a CBC broadcaster, but it’s a great pleasure…

  • “Sherlock Holmes’ Great Canadian Adventure”: Jack Batten and Michael Bliss on the Annexation Threat

    Well, this is fun. (Not sure about the AI-generated image, however, based on a prompt of “Sherlock Holmes in Canada.” The hat’s all wrong.) This is courtesy of Jackie Shead’s Atwood book, which includes a reference to a historical curiosity of a story, first published in the Globe & Mail nearly a half century ago.…

  • Canada-U.S. Relations and Louise Penny’s Fiction

    Borders and citizenship have been on my mind. In the current climate, it feels more necessary to attend to the relationship between the two countries than I had intended to do in my book project. My teaching materials on Canadian cultural nationalism and sovereignty and American cultural imperialism are getting a dust-off for revision in…