Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing, fresh look at one of Canada's greatest living writers.[...]

From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature--and one of our most beloved writers--a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to "Selected Stories" (1968-1994).
"Family Furnishings" brings us twenty-four of Al[...]

Among the few critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through an examination of Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsett[...]

In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive interleaved commentaries addressing chronology and contexts, ending with e[...]

Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the author's accomplishments working--and playing--alongside some of Canada's greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender A[...]

'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made to last' Guardian When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chr[...]

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.

Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro's writing. The collection illustrates how Munro's short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical cri[...]

Eine großartige neue Erzählungssammlung von Alice Munro, einer der bedeutendsten Autorinnen der Gegenwart. "Himmel und Hölle": neun Geschichten, scheinbar alltäglichharmlos wie ein Kinderspiel und doch von beklemmender Abgründigkeit. Immer sind es Verstrickungen des Gefühls, die seltsamen, oft[...]

Vot uzhe tridtsat let Elis Manro nazyvajut luchshim v mire avtorom korotkikh rasskazov, no k rossijskomu chitatelju ee knigi prikhodjat tolko teper, posle togo, kak pisatelnitsa poluchila Nobelevskuju premiju po literature. Kritika postojanno sravnivaet Manro s Chekhovym, i eto sravnenie ne lisheno [...]