Examining culture and the arts.

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• Tricked Up Alice Munro rebels against realism.
  Meghan O'Rourke Dec. 21, 2004
  
• Ariel Redux The latest chapter in the Sylvia Plath controversy.
  Meghan O'Rourke Dec. 7, 2004