"From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a ... collection of nonfiction--funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient--which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what if beauty is only skin deep? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?"--
"From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a ... collection of nonfiction--funny, erudite, intimate, impassioned, and always startlingly prescient--which grapples with such wide-ranging topics as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How do we get rid of the immense amount of plastic that's littering our seas and lands? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? Is science fiction now writing us? So what if beauty is only skin deep? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?"--
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid’s Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Part I: 2004 to 2009 What Will Happen Next? Scientific Romancing Frozen in Time From Eve to Dawn Polonia Somebody’s Daughter Five Visits to the Word-Hoard The Echo Maker Wetlands Trees of Life, Trees of Death Ryszard Kapuściński Anne of Green Gables Alice Munro: An Appreciation Ancient Balances Scrooge A Writing Life
Part II: 2010 to 2013 Art Is Our Nature The Writer as Political Agent? Really? Literature and the Environment Alice Munro The Gift Bring Up the Bodies Rachel Carson Anniversary The Futures Market Why I Wrote Maddaddam Seven Gothic Tales Doctor Sleep Doris Lessing How to Change the World?
Part III: 2014 to 2016 Which Is to Be Master In Translationland On Beauty The Summer of the Stromatolites Kafka Future Library Reflections on The Handmaid’s Tale We Are Double-Plus Unfree Buttons or Bows? Gabrielle Roy Shakespeare and Me Marie-Claire Blais Kiss of the Fur Queen We Hang by a Thread
Part IV: 2017 To 2019 How Slippery Is the Slope? What Art Under Trump? The Illustrated Man Am I A Bad Feminist? We Lost Ursula Le Guin When We Needed Her Most Three Tarot Cards A Slave State? Oryx and Crake Greetings, Earthlings! What Are These Human Rights of Which You Speak? Payback Memory of Fire Tell. The. Truth.
Part V: 2020 to 2021 Thought and Memory Growing Up in Quarantineland The Equivalents Inseparable We The Writing of The Testaments The Bedside Book of Birds Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death Caught in Time’s Current Big Science Barry Lopez The Sea Trilogy
Part I: 2004 to 2009 What Will Happen Next? Scientific Romancing Frozen in Time From Eve to Dawn Polonia Somebody’s Daughter Five Visits to the Word-Hoard The Echo Maker Wetlands Trees of Life, Trees of Death Ryszard Kapuściński Anne of Green Gables Alice Munro: An Appreciation Ancient Balances Scrooge A Writing Life
Part II: 2010 to 2013 Art Is Our Nature The Writer as Political Agent? Really? Literature and the Environment Alice Munro The Gift Bring Up the Bodies Rachel Carson Anniversary The Futures Market Why I Wrote Maddaddam Seven Gothic Tales Doctor Sleep Doris Lessing How to Change the World?
Part III: 2014 to 2016 Which Is to Be Master In Translationland On Beauty The Summer of the Stromatolites Kafka Future Library Reflections on The Handmaid’s Tale We Are Double-Plus Unfree Buttons or Bows? Gabrielle Roy Shakespeare and Me Marie-Claire Blais Kiss of the Fur Queen We Hang by a Thread
Part IV: 2017 To 2019 How Slippery Is the Slope? What Art Under Trump? The Illustrated Man Am I A Bad Feminist? We Lost Ursula Le Guin When We Needed Her Most Three Tarot Cards A Slave State? Oryx and Crake Greetings, Earthlings! What Are These Human Rights of Which You Speak? Payback Memory of Fire Tell. The. Truth.
Part V: 2020 to 2021 Thought and Memory Growing Up in Quarantineland The Equivalents Inseparable We The Writing of The Testaments The Bedside Book of Birds Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death Caught in Time’s Current Big Science Barry Lopez The Sea Trilogy
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This isn't just a collection of essays for Atwood fans. Rather, this is an attempt to make sense of the world, taking in with characteristic verve everything from Anne of Green Gables to Donald Trump, zombies to censorship . . . While the tone skates from surreal off-kilter wit to impassioned gravity, Atwood always makes the idea of big questions a little more digestible . . . The collection is polyphonic, enthusiastic, illuminating Sophie Macintosh i News
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