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Alice Munro
July 23, 2024
Linda Hall
What Alice Munro Knew
After news of Munro’s betrayal of her daughter, it’s hard not to see a preoccupation with guilt and secrets in her later work.
October 5, 2022
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
The Slippery Politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature
People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.
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October 10, 2013
Ruth Franklin, Chloe Schama
Alice Munro Wins the Nobel Prize
June 20, 2013
Laura Bennett
The Tedious Obsession With Authors' Retirements
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Ruth Franklin
Five Books I Wish I Had Written About This Year
July 13, 2011
Ruth Franklin
The Freedom to Bumble
May 19, 2010
Ruth Franklin
THE READ: I’m Sorry, Ms. Jackson
February 9, 2010
Ruth Franklin
THE READ: We Are the World
December 22, 2009
Ruth Franklin
The Best Fiction of 2009
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Stanley Kauffmann on Films: People in Shadows
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Ruth Franklin
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