Alice Munro

Ms Munro comes from southern Ontario, an area of considerable psychic murkiness and oddity. Her stories dwell on her own people and their peculiarities: their repressed emotions, respectable fronts, hidden sexual excesses, outbreaks of violence, lurid crimes and long-held grudges. --The Economist, A well-deserved win: Alice Munro's short stories, May 28, 2009


The Lamp in the Mausoleum By Alison Lurie, review of The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro, Carried Away: A Selection of Stories by Alice Munro, Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography by Robert Thacker, and Lives of Mothers and Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro by Sheila Munro, The New York Review of Books, December 21, 2006

The Outsider, review by Deborah Eisenberg of The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro, The Atlantic Monthly, at Powell's Review-A-Day December 12, 2006

Tricked Up: Alice Munro rebels against realism, by Meghan O'Rourke, Slate, December 21, 2004