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Alice Munro

August 2016

  • Pedro Almodóvar in Madrid last month.

    Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Nobody sings. There’s no humour. I just wanted restraint’

    The director has limited himself to ‘pure drama’ for his 20th movie. Here he talks about Brexit, the vanished freedom of the 1980s, and his need for solitude

April 2016

  • No swimming sign.

    Top 10s
    KJ Orr's top 10 stories of crossing boundaries

  • i daniel blake

    Film blog
    Cannes 2016: big names and some great Brits swell an exciting lineup

January 2016

  • Sarah Tisdall appears at court flanked by photographers. She was appearing to face charges of breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaking a memo about Greenham Common airforce base. Photo by Graham Turner, 23/03/84

    A look back
    From the archive – this week in 1987

    Secrecy and the Conservative government

October 2015

  • Glass half full … Vancouver skyline at Coal Harbour.

    Reading cities
    Reading cities: books about Vancouver

  • reading

    Books blog
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

August 2015

  • Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature<br>23 Oct 2006, Ontario, Canada --- (061021-26)--Godrich, Ontario, Canada--October 21, 2006--ALICE MUNRO--Photographed along a favorite walk she takes with her husband through a park along the eastern edge of Lake Huron. © George Waldman --- Image by © George Waldman/ZUMA Press/Corbis

    Journeys in literature
    Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro – a place familiar but lost

    My grandmother also came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions

March 2015

  • Alice Munroe

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro review – a quiet assertion of artistic intent

    The Nobel laureate’s mastery is deftly expressed in this early portrait of everyday life in small-town Canada

December 2014

  • Little Women.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Christmases in literature

    From a charming scene in War and Peace to Kingsley Amis’s depiction of a ghastly crew of septuagenarians, Kate Kellaway picks the best Christmases in literature

October 2014

  • A pile of books.

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best short story collections

    Elizabeth Day chooses the sharpest and smartest of small but perfectly formed works of fiction

July 2014

  • books

    Tips, links and suggestions
    Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week?

    Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them

June 2014

  • Alice Munro

    Lying Under the Apple Tree review – Alice Munro's astonishing tales of small-town Canada

  • woman reading

    Tips, links and suggestions
    Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading this week?

March 2014

  • Alice Munro coin, Canada

    Alice Munro immortalised on Canadian currency

    The acclaimed author appears on a silver collector's coin, joining Jane Austen and Astrid Lindgren, who appear on UK and Swedish banknotes respectively, writes Alison Flood

February 2014

  • nina persson on my radar

    On my radar
    On my radar: Nina Persson's cultural highlights

  • How to be a smarter reader

    Do Something brainy
    How to be a smarter reader

January 2014

  • The novelist Margaret Atwood (left) and the writer Alice Munro

    Margaret Atwood hangs out with Alice Munro – video

    The 2013 Nobel literature laureate Alice Munro talks online to the Booker prizewinning novelist Margaret Atwood about the attraction of the short story for Canadian writers during the 1950s and 60s, the problem with likable characters and how fiction can move readers to send an author hate mail

December 2013

  • Alice Munro

    Dear Life by Alice Munro – review

    The Nobel prizewinner's short stories are concise, subtle and masterly, says Kate Kellaway

  • Alice Munro

    Alice Munro responds to Nobel prize by video interview

    Too frail to fly to Stockholm, the writer has substituted an interview on prize website for the traditional acceptance speech

  • Alice Munro

    Nobel prizewinner Alice Munro: 'It's a wonderful thing for the short story'

    This week Alice Munro will receive the Nobel prize for literature. Lisa Allardice, who met Munro in Canada after the publication of her collection The View from Castle Rock, asks her about the dividing line between life and work

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