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

A Loss of Beauty

Sounding the alarm for some of nature's most interesting creatures.

Peter Calamai

Peter Calamai has been a foreign correspondent, national reporter and editorial page editor for Southam newspapers and, most recently, science reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star. He is now freelancing to avoid the catastrophe of retirement.