"Travel is dangerous; nevertheless, we travel," says Margaret Atwood, her speaker, in "The Bus to Alliston Ontario"--signalling, perhaps, in her very speech, a new expansion of her field vision.
Gertrude Stein, seventy years ago, was searching for a way of writing which she called "the continuous present": that is, a linguistic mode which would challenge and modify the temporality and the linearity of conventional prose narration.
Who do you think you are is the most recent collection of short stories by Alice Munro, ten in all, eight of them published previously in a variety of magazines ranging from The New Yorker to Viva and Weekend, two of them newly written.