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

To the Girl without Birds at the Top of the Stairs

A poem.

Catherine Graham

Catherine Graham teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto. This poem appears in Put Flowers around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems, her latest collection, published by Wolsak and Wynn.