The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • 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…

  • Writers and Scams in the Era of AI

    (My first-ever AI-generated image, courtesy of Gemini 3. Why do all these AI tech products sound like space missions, or satellites? The image shows a robot typing a manuscript, which was my prompt. Rather worryingly accurate.) If I were to launch a profitable and efficient scam, which is beyond both my capacity and my interests,…