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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 tow...

I'VE BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH MY sisters and women friends recently about what's up with all the baring of female bodies these days, on TV, in the movies, in music videos, and on the street. Young female bodies, I mean. (I'm not talking about...

WHEN I WAS FALLING for Diane Arbus' photographs some years ago, it dawned on me that a photograph is not necessarily the record of a moment, but can also be the culmination of a transaction between the photographer and the subject. This is why...

In the following essay, York discusses the theme of connection in Munro's work, primarily in Lives of Girls and Woman and The Moons of Jupiter.

[Lives of Girls and Women] is not, the author says, autobiographical except in form. In fact, in form it more closely resembles a series of short stories, and it is no surprise to see that the author won a Canadian award in this genre. Each chapter of Lives of Girls and Women is virtually self-contained; characters who appear in more than one are nearly always reintroduced, however well we might reasonably be supposed to remember them. Yet each protagonist is closely connected with the central family; Del J...