The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • More Raymond Chandler Evenings

    Another storm, this one with hail, and some more Raymond Chandler thoughts as I listen to Robyn Hitchcock play “Yesterday’s Rain” in an online concert. We’ve been watching Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in Altman’s The Long Goodbye this week. It’s a deliberately paced work with oodles of groovy atmosphere, transposed, as it is, to…

  • Bringing True Crime to the Stage: Marquita Lynn Walsh’s She Is Here

    Publicity poster for She Is Here by Marquita Lynn Walsh. Livestream tickets available for the April 25 performance. During the first two years of COVID, theatre companies across Canada provided innovative live-streamed productions, and it was a joy to be be able to watch a range of works from the comfort of home. Once the…

  • Pat Lowther and Sylvia Plath: Back to the Archives

    Cover image of Faber’s forthcoming edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil. Because I write about crime fiction most of the time, I’m acutely conscious when I’m writing about real-life tragedies linked to literary figures that this is a very different matter. There is real suffering and…