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

Canon Making with a Vengeance

Did some inferior works creep into the Canadian pantheon? If so, why?

Robert Lecker

Robert Lecker is a professor of English at McGill University and the author of Dr Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in Canlit (Vehicule Press, 2006).