Revelations that Alice Munro stayed with the man who sexually assaulted her nine-year-old daughter force a reckoning with the Nobel prize winner and her art
The article in the Star is heartbreaking.
Alice Munro’s debut collection, newly reissued, demonstrates an artist fully formed from the start
The stories in Dance of the Happy Shades establish many of the characteristics that would come to be associated with Munro's oeuvre.
Short story month 2024: Shashi Bhat on short stories, autofiction, and her debut collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts
The real, physical world is ever-present in these stories, most particularly in a recurring theme focusing on women's bodies.
Short story month 2024: Alice Munro, Nobel Prize winner and giant of the short story, dies at 92
One need only read a few sentences of Munro's writing to understand that one is in the presence of literary genius.
The annual anthology series Best Canadian Stories celebrates fifty years of showcasing Canada’s proficiency and variety in the literary form
“The function of it was the pleasure of the work for readers, and the value to writers was to show them how good they had to get,” says longtime series editor John Metcalf.