Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces, 2004 to 2021

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- author.

First edition.

Book

New York : Doubleday, [2022]

©2022

xx, 475 pages ; 25 cm

"In more than fifty pieces, Margaret Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humor at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in this collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Donald Trump, and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom, from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) and how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human world"--Dust jacket flap.

Popular culture -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

Essays.

Essays. Selections

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 -- 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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