The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Assia Wevill’s Canadian Connections

    Image credit: Bonhams, The Roy Davids Collection Content Warning: Suicide and Child Murder Today would have been Assia (Gutmann) Wevill’s 99th birthday; she was only 41 when she died in 1969, in a murder-suicide alongside her daughter Shura, who had recently turned four. I approach writing about Wevill with deep ambivalence, worrying that my own…

  • 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,…