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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
Back Issues

April 2023

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Gobblefunking

To tinker with an icon's prose

Kyle Wyatt

Populist-in-Chief

Diefenbaker and discontent

Murray Campbell

Left Behind

Maybe we’re just not that into them

Tom Jokinen

Maleficence

He put a spell on her

Kayla Penteliuk

Crowning Moment

British Columbia before Canada

Michael Ledger-Lomas

Crisis Mismanagement

Homelessness in our largest city

Amy Reiswig

A Modern Klondike

Northern Ontario’s fiery ring

David Marks Shribman

Good Morning, Nova Scotia

In the booth with Rick Howe

Paul W. Bennett

Diplomatically Speaking

An envoy’s many years of service

Martin Laflamme

In Other Words

Lori Saint-Martin’s life in translation

Graham Fraser

Bundles of Joy

On the humble dumpling

Hattie Klotz

Double Threat

A global health check

Donald Wright

Their Names in Lights

Canadian women who made it big

Keith Garebian

The Artisans of Big Cove

A mid-century Mi’kmaw cooperative

Patrick Leonard

How We Said Goodbye

Remembering the writer Anne Kingston

Katherine Ashenburg

In Lightning Flashes

Why does Walter Benjamin haunt us so?

Mark Kingwell

In the Ottawa Valley

An energetic debut

Cecily Ross

A Series Interrupted

Marie-Claire Blais’s melancholy finale

Amanda Perry

The Aftermath

A debut from Shelly Kawaja

Ellie Eberlee

The Weirdness of Everyday Life

An oddly pleasing collection

Christina Turner

Title Company

What's in a shared name?

Katie Welch