Commentary: Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about
The reality, of course, is much more muddled, and fraught, and heartrending. When news broke this week of Alice Munro ...
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Reckoning With Alice Munro's Darkest Secret
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a mother has her child’s best interests at heart, and that she will put those interests before her own. Nature has made this a necessity: Without ...
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Alice Munro’s stories had a depth most novelists only dream of
It surprises me that I can’t remember the first time that I read Alice Munro, who died on Monday at 92. As a writer who let 13 years lapse between his two novels and who still (to the patient ...
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Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short-story author, dies at 92
The Canadian writer was described as a "master of the contemporary story" when receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who explored ...
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Why Alice Munro’s Work Felt so Empty
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Alice Munro: the short-story writer who was 'as good as it gets'
Alice Munro often embarked on what she thought was a novel, only to find that the narrative petered out after about 40 pages. But this hardly mattered, said The New Yorker, because as the citation ...