Alice Munro has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature! If you’re new to her writing, here’s our beginner’s guide. Or read our review of her latest Dear Life, which Ben Dolnick claims has “the intelligence itself, the compassionate but merciless awareness that she has shone through all her hundreds of stories.” And in our Books of the Millennium series, Michelle Huneven says she returns to Munro’s Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”for sustenance, for instruction, and for pleasure.”