Margaret Atwood is the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Blind Assassin, among other novels. Her most recent work of fiction is I’m Starved for You, a long short story available as an e-book.
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Ariel or Caliban?
May 10, 2012
The Meagre Tarmac
by Clark Blaise
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The Homer of the Ants
April 8, 2010
Anthill
by E.O. Wilson
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The Double Life & Its Dangers
October 8, 2009
The Confessions of Edward Day
by Valerie Martin
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In the Heart of the Heartland
December 21, 2006
The Echo Maker
by Richard Powers
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After the Last Battle
April 7, 2005
Visa for Avalon
by Bryher, with an introduction by Susan McCabe
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He Springs Eternal
November 6, 2003
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
by Studs Terkel
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Arguing Against Ice Cream
June 12, 2003
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
by Bill McKibben
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‘Castle of the Imagination’
January 16, 2003
Child of My Heart
by Alice McDermott
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The Queen of Quinkdom
September 26, 2002
The Birthday of the Worldand Other Stories
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Cops and Robbers
May 23, 2002
Tishomingo Blues
by Elmore Leonard
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Mystery Man
February 14, 2002
The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960
edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett, and with a foreword by Josephine Hammett Marshall
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers
by Jo Hammett, edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett
Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings
selected and edited by Steven Marcus
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The Case of Wei Jingsheng
February 15, 1996
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Murder in Turkey
May 13, 1993
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Help Salman Rushdie!
April 12, 1990
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My Psychic Garburator
May 6, 2013
Most dreams of writers aren’t about dead people or writing, and—like everyone else’s dreams—they aren’t very memorable. They just seem to be the products of a psychic garburator chewing through the potato peels and coffee grounds of the day and burping them up to you as mush.
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Deeper into the Twungle
March 12, 2012
Not long ago, I found myself having a Twitter conversation with a rotating skull. Its picture shows a skull turning around and around against a black background. Its handle is simply @rotatingskull. Its self-description is cryptic: “I am a skull that rotates.” When I asked it how I might make my own head rotate in this attractive manner—something I have always longed to do, as it would be a visual description of my state of mind in the mornings before caffeine—it told me I should view The Exorcist backwards while sprinkling holy water. Then it sent me a YouTube of itself in younger days, when it still had a skeleton, featuring as the prima ballerina—or ballerino—in the 1929 Disney Silly Symphony, The Skeleton Dance.
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Atwood in the Twittersphere
March 29, 2010
A long time ago—less than a year ago in fact, but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folksongs in which the hero spends a night with the Queen of Faerie and then returns to find that a hundred years have passed and all his friends are dead…. Where was I?