On Alice Munro / Biography of Alice Munro / Alice Munro : critical reception / Doing her duty and writing her life : Alice Munro's cultural and historical context / Seduction and subjectivity : psychoanalysis and the fiction of Alice Munro / Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro : writers, women, Canadians / "My mother's Laocoon inkwell" : Lives of Girls and Women and the classical past / Who does Rose think she is? Acting and being in The beggar maid : stories of Flo and Rose / Alice Munro's The progress of love : free (and) radical / Friend of my youth : Alice Munro and the power of narrativity / In search of the perfect metaphor : the language of the short story and Alice Munro's "Meneseteung" / The complex tangle of secrets in Alice Munro's Open Secrets / The houses that Alice Munro built : the community of The love of a good woman / Honest tricks : surrogate authors in Alice Munro's Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage / Narrative, memory, and contingency in Alice Munro's Runaway / "Secretly devoted to nature" : place sense in Alice Munro's The view from Castle Rock / "Age could be her ally" : late style in Alice Munro's Too much happiness