The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • 4th of July: Murder Ballads and Gretchen Peters’s “Independence Day”

    Katy Horan’s gorgeously illustrated and chilling little book compiles twenty traditional murder ballads, some of them well known and others less familiar (at least to me), with insightful analysis of the genre. She Wore Black, a fun podcast about things gothic, horror, and mystery, has an interview with her that’s worth a listen. Horan talks…

  • World Poetry Day 2026: Lowther, Atwood, Carson and Classical Mythology

    I read Erin Shields‘s Ransacking Troy in one great gulp this morning, and it’s a bracing way to start the day. As in her previous work, Shields’s play is reconsidering familiar stories from a feminist perspective in order to recuperate what has been lost or silenced. Her efforts extend from Greek mythology to the present,…

  • Mercy and Misery

    Because I have little to no Latin, my guesses about the meaning of words are rarely correct and sometimes risible. A friend gave me a gorgeous just-because gift this week of Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day, by the wonderfully named Clemency Burton-Hill. Each day features a selection, and today’s is…