The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mental-health

  • The Loneliness and Occasional Despair of Chronic Illness

    So I do try not to whinge too much, but I’ve been in pain, off and on, for several weeks, due to a vestigial organ that needs swift removal (but will also need to wait its turn, because surgery wait-lists are epic). I have chronic seasonal insomnia, so in late December I saw a long-awaited…

  • Sometimes people leave you / Halfway through the woods

    At this time of year, as January gives way to February, I always rest a bit in grief and the recollection of loss. No one makes it through adulthood without having experienced the heaviness of loved ones who left this life. In Stephen Sondheim’s gorgeous “No One Is Alone” from Into the Woods, we have…

  • Pat Capponi’s Socially-Conscious Crime Fiction

    Yesterday I walked downtown fairly early in the morning, just after seven. There was a glorious sunrise. Shades of purple and pink, a veritable Homeric rosy-fingered dawn. And then, along Pandora Street, where I’d intended to pick up a greasy breakfast sandwich as my reward for an early morning irksome errand, I was daunted by…