The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • 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,…

  • This Could Be the Day

    Photo: Robyn Hitchcock; used under a CC license I’m writing a book. Technically, two books. Piece of cake. “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.” George Orwell I love this, because my writing and my chronic illnesses are closely linked, including both taking place largely in…

  • The Loneliness and Occasional Despair of Chronic Illness

    So I do try not to whinge too much, but I’ve been in pain, off and on, for several weeks, due to a vestigial organ that needs swift removal (but will also need to wait its turn, because surgery wait-lists are epic). I have chronic seasonal insomnia, so in late December I saw a long-awaited…