02852cam a2200409 i 4500 552151534 TxAuBib 20220330120000.0 210518s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021021363 9780385547482 hbk. 038554748X hbk. TxAuBib rda Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Burning questions : essays, 2004-2021 / Margaret Atwood. First edition. New York : Doubleday, 2022. xx, 475 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Part I: 2004-2009. 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: 2010-2013. 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: 2014-2016. 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: 2017-2019. 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: 2020-2021. 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. 20220330. 2000-2099. Essays. American essays 21st century. Popular culture 21st century History and criticism. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors. LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist. United States History. Nonfiction. Non-Fiction. NON - FICTION . TXDRI