Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004-2022
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays—funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient— which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:
Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
How can we live on our planet?
Is it true? And is it fair?
What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?
In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only…
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September 5, 2023
MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. 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.
Book of Lives
Margaret Atwood
Paper Boat
Margaret Atwood
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Dearly
Margaret Atwood
We Are Still Here
edited by Nahid Shahalimi; Foreword by Margaret Atwood
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Bedside Book of Birds
Graeme Gibson
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set
Margaret Atwood
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
Gentleman Death / Perpetual Motion
Graeme Gibson, Introduction by Margaret Atwood Introduction by Margaret Atwood
The Flame
Leonard Cohen
The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
Margaret Atwood; illustrated by Renee Nault
Carrie
Stephen King
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
The Bookseller of Florence
Ross King
Half-Bads in White Regalia
Cody Caetano
In a Time of Distance
Alexander McCall Smith
Through the Garden
Lorna Crozier
Letters of Note: New York City
Shaun Usher
Letters of Note: Sex
Shaun Usher
Burning Boy
Paul Auster
Pluck
Donna Morrissey
Measuring Up
Dan Robson
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Knife
Salman Rushdie
The Road Years
Rick Mercer
Jennie's Boy
Wayne Johnston
All the Rage
Brad Fraser
The Heart of a Superfan
Nav Bhatia; with Tamara Baluja
Saga Boy
Antonio Michael Downing
A Little Bit Broken
Roz Weston
I Love Russia
Elena Kostyuchenko Translated by Bela Shayevich and Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Paper Trails
Roy MacGregor
Mistakes to Run With
Yasuko Thanh
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
Martha Wainwright