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 ...

It was my Canadian friend Eileen who first put me on to Canadian writer Alice Munro. In 1998, she gave me a copy of Munro’s Selected Stories; a book which still stands on my shelves. I read the ...

again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For Munro, who was then emerging as one of her generation’s leading writers, the previous few years had been blighted by ...

Rachel Aviv’s article about Alice Munro—and how she stayed married to her husband, Gerry Fremlin, even after finding out that he had molested her daughter—took me back to Munro’s short ...