The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • The Sylvia Hotel and Vancouver Writers

    “The Americans have a new war that’s how we know the generations have changed.” – George Fetherling, “First Signs of Wartime Spring,” The Sylvia Hotel Poems The Sylvia Hotel is a venerable institution, and this is my first visit. I was curious about whether the Sylvia had made it into any crime fiction. My research…

  • 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…

  • Clearing Space for Kindness

    “Kindness” is not a concept that I always associate with higher education, or with education in general. Learning is difficult, but that inherent challenge has been compounded by the human and thus imperfect systems that we’ve built: Grading. Ranking. Prize Days and Spelling Bees. Attendance requirements that punish the chronically ill. The endless, disheartening casualization…