on a night when she was visiting and her mother was away. When she went home, Skinner told her stepmother and stepbrother, who in turn told her father, Jim Munro, Alice Munro’s first husband.

Last July, the Toronto Star published Andrea Robin Skinner’s account of her sexual abuse, as a child, by Alice Munro’s husband, Gerald Fremlin—abuse that Munro, her mother, ultimately chose to ...

The literature of dementia is not large. There are nonfictional exceptions, such as Annie Ernaux’s wrenching account of her mother’s descent into Alzheimer’s, I Remain in Darkness, Wendy Mitchell’s ...

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Do we experience life as a continuum or as a series of disconnected shocks and accidents? Alice Munro started writing at a time when novelists, at least, were preoccupied with coherence, with ...

“We’d have sort of these night sessions where we’d sometimes ... Raymond Carver and Alice Munro are big favorites. The album title is actually a tribute to Alice Munro, who is someone ...

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Brittany Snow takes on the role of Alice, Peter’s new partner and mentor, while Amanda Warren plays Catherine, Peter’s new boss at Night Action. Arienne Mandi joins as Noor, an aide at the ...

The University of Alberta law professor continues his crusade against junk science and online misinformation in his fifth ...

Canada is a gigantic country, containing different landscapes, climates, peoples, cultures and languages. Alice Munro cuts it down to a disconcertingly small size. She situates her stories somewhere ...