The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Feminist Revenge Fantasies, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence

    And today, because I’m grappling with this in two other forms of writing, a brief foray into intimate partner violence and proposed Canadian legislation about coercive control. My former Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins, twice brought forward legislation in the House of Commons to address a gap in the law related to “a pattern of…

  • Nancy Drew Enters the Public Domain

    Ninety-five years after their original publication, the first four Nancy Drew novels (all published in 1930) have just entered the public domain in the United States. Without having glanced at them in more than four decades, I can still picture all of the covers and conjure up some plot details from The Secret of the…

  • Freedom to Read Week in Canada: February 23 to March 1

    This year I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about banned books (and it’s only February). In the United States, organized efforts are removing LGBTQ+ books from classrooms and school libraries; these initiatives are spreading to Canada and affecting community libraries, too, which is shocking. Next week is Freedom to Read Week in Canada, and…