Alice Munro

Winner

The winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature is Canadian short story writer Alice Munro. Here is our 60-second guide to her work and life.

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A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: Alice Munro’s breakthrough masterpiece, the times are still a-changing for Dylan, and Samuel Johnson at 300.