Five books published in fourteen years have firmly established Alice Munro among Canada's best writers of prose fiction. Her form is the short story, and her material is largely the experience of a girl growing up poor in a small southwestern Ontario...

The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “America”—in quotes because the view from up there is actually only...

The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “America”—in quotes because the view from up there is actually...

Elizabeth Hay, a former radio journalist who long hoped to write a novel about her "golden summer" working in northern Canada in the 1970s, won the lucrative Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Late Nights on Air.""I am very thrilled and very lucky — so...

AWAY FROM HER Running Time 110 minutes Written and Directed by Sarah Polley Starring Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent The subject of aging, illness and letting go are not mainstream subjects for commercial films, but Away From Her, which marks the feature-film directing debut of...

Woodcock was a Canadian educator, editor, author, and critic. In the following essay, he explores realism in Munro's writing, particularly as it relates to her younger female characters.

In the following essay, Hoy discusses the paradoxical elements of Munro's fiction.

York is a Canadian educator and critic. In the following essay, she discusses the postmodernist elements of Munro's fiction and relates how her work incorporates several theories of photography.