Alice Munro
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Cool Yule: 30 ways to have a stress-free Christmas
- Life & Style
- December 15, 2018, 06:00
Turkey bought? Done. List made and checked twice? Check. Champagne on ice? Of course. Yet even the best-laid plans can be derailed by last-minute issu(...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Julieta review: Brilliant tension in everyday emotions
- Film
- August 25, 2016, 15:00
I don’t imagine many fans of Alice Munro feel that her stories lack an injection of primary-coloured camp. Restraint and discipline are at the heart o(...)

Julieta Cannes review: ‘Age is not an illness. It’s a massacre’
- Film
- May 17, 2016, 13:05
We should not be surprised to discover that, after all these years, Pedro Almodóvar remains very much himself. There is a scene in the middle-ranking (...)

Chris Kraus: ‘The more seriously you take something, the funnier it is’
- Books
- May 14, 2016, 05:00
Chris Kraus is refilling her coffee, hard of hearing and fantastically good humoured over Skype. Sometimes a book perfectly captures the zeitgeist. He(...)

Tales of the afterlife and living hells
- Books
- April 19, 2014, 01:00
‘It would be a perfect hell for even death to be riddled with uncertainty, to be still thinking the same stupid thoughts.” Held hostage in a cell f(...)

Short and very sharp: the majesty of Alice Munro
- Culture
- October 10, 2013, 17:50
Readers and writers throughout the world will celebrate the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature to the revered Canadian storyteller Ali(...)

Canadian writer Munro wins Nobel literature prize
- Books
- October 10, 2013, 12:45
Canadian writer Alice Munro has won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature.The Swedish Academy, which selects Nobel literature winners, called her a “m(...)

Jhumpa Lahiri: A serious voice that comes from nowhere
- Books
- October 9, 2013, 01:00
It all looks so easy: winning a Pulitzer Prize with her first book, a collection of short stories; then her debut novel is made into a movie, while he(...)