Alice Munro
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From Turgenev to Tobias Wolff and John Cheever to Alice Munro, many of the best short stories hinge around borders being transgressed
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Andrea Arnold seems like the one to watch with her American Honey, while Ken Loach gets tough on food-bank Britain. And look out for the hidden gems
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As a relatively young global city, Vancouver can play up to its brash, breezy image. But some of its most celebrated books are rooted in harder times, as it struggled to find its place in the world, and to deal with racial tensions. Tyler Stiem takes a closer look
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them – plus our favourite literary links
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My grandmother also came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions
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The Nobel laureate’s mastery is deftly expressed in this early portrait of everyday life in small-town Canada
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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
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Elizabeth Day chooses the sharpest and smartest of small but perfectly formed works of fiction
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Alice Munro demonstrates mastery of her craft in 15 stories culled from five recent collections, writes Clare Wigfall
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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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
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The Cardigans singer tells Leah Harper about an enigmatic New York songwriter, making special trips to buy chocolate, and the pleasures of a good biography
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There's plenty of advice out there to help you read more – but what about how to get more from what you read? Here's how
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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
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The Nobel prizewinner's short stories are concise, subtle and masterly, says Kate Kellaway
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The novelist talks to Laura Barnett about the death of feminism, her first novel and the worst thing anyone ever said about her
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Having declared she was done with writing, Nobel laureate says she's wavering – and that ideas keep coming
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Canadian short-story writer, now 82, cites health reasons for passing up ceremony in December
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American Psycho author says on Twitter that literature prize is 'a joke' – then backpedals after public pressure, saying he felt like he'd beaten up Santa Claus
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The best short stories reverberate magnificently and it's time they received their due, says Sarah Hall, who won a £15,000 prize for one in the same week Alice Munro won the Nobel
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Initially regarded as a housewife whose writing was domestic and boring, elusive perfection drove Canadian to literary stardom
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Top 10s Top 10 mothers, 'bad' and otherwise, in books