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

An Impossible Dream

Imagining a “new and better New York” on Nova Scotia’s rocky coast.

Robert MacNeil

Robert MacNeil, raised in Nova Scotia, spent 40 years in journalism, lastly with the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour on PBS. Among other books, he has written three novels and three memoirs, the most recent being Looking for My Country, Finding Myself in America (Harcourt, 2003). He lives in New York and has a summer home near Shelburne.