From the archives

Who’s Afraid of Alice Munro?

A long-awaited biography gives the facts, but not the mystery, behind this writer’s genius

Magdalene Redekop

The New Campus Puritanism

Free speech, safe spaces, and the limits of tolerance

Ira Wells

Carol's Canon

A new collection explores Carol Shields's literary legacy

Marian Botsford Fraser

Shopping ’Til We Drop

Our stuff comes cheap—but how much longer can the deals last?

Tom Slee

Tom Slee has worked in the software industry for 20 years. He writes about the intersections of technology, politics and economics and is the author of No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice (Between the Lines, 2006).