Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004-2021 / Margaret Atwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

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

Popular culture.

United States.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xx, 475 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, [2022]

Summary:

From literary icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant 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? Is it true? And is it fair? In over fifty pieces, taken from lectures, autobiographical essays, book reviews, cultural criticism, obituaries, and new introductions to her own body of work (including "The Handmaid's Tale" thirty years after its initial publication) as well as that of other writers, we watch Atwood aim her prodigious intellect and impish humor at the world, and report back to us on what she finds. From asking what society's youth expects from its elders (2004), to pondering the philosophical underpinnings of debt (2008, not surprisingly), to encountering a mysterious new platform called Twitter (2009), to asking if it is, in fact, too late to save the planet (2015) or what forces have been unleashed in the age of Trump (2016), and culminating in a breathtaking meditation on grief and poetry in the wake of her own loss (2020), Atwood provokes, probes, delights, surprises, and rewards the reader at every turn" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I 2004 TO 2009 I 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 kapuscinski

Anne Of Green Gables

Alice Munro: an appreciation

Ancient balances

Scrooge

A writing life

pt. 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?

pt. 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

pt. 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

pt. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-457) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Atwood, Margaret. Burning questions

ISBN:

9780385547482

038554748X

9780593314074

0593314077

OCLC:

1252739874