From the Book - First edition.
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.
From the Book - Large Print - First large print edition.
PART I: 2004-2009. What will happen next? --
Five visits to the word-hoard --
Trees of life, trees of death --
Alice Munro: an appreciation --
PART II: 2010-2013. Art is our nature --
The writer as political agent? Really? --
Literature and the environment --
Rachel Carson anniversary --
How to change the world? --
PART III: 2014-2016. Which is to be master --
The summer of the stromatolites --
Reflections on The handmaid's tale --
We are double-plus unfree --
PART IV: 2017-2019. How slippery is the slope? --
We lost Ursula Le Guin when we needed her most --
Greetings, earthlings! What are these human rights of which you speak? --
PART V: 2020-2021. Thought and memory --
Growing up in quarantineland --
The writing of The testaments --
The bedside book of birds --
Perpetual motion and gentleman death --
Caught in time's current --
