From the archives

Dear Prudence

A life of exuberance and eccentricity

Liam Lacey

Who’s Afraid of Alice Munro?

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

Magdalene Redekop

Mythological Meltdown

Why we need to get back to the basics—and bases—of western civilization.

W. J. Keith

Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture

Northrop Frye and Jay Macpherson

University of Toronto Press

471 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 0802039278

W. J. Keith

W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Canadian Literature in English (1985, 2006) and Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood’s “The New Age/Le nouveau siècle” (2002).