CURIOUS PURSUITS by Margaret Atwood

CURIOUS PURSUITS by Margaret AtwoodBy the author of The Handmaids Tale and Alias GraceCurious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present. Atwood remembers moving to London as a starry eyed teenager in 1964 and her first attempts at gardening; she discusses feminist utopias in fiction, and writes moving odes on beloved classics like Anne of Green Gables. Personal life and

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These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to ‘read’ and ‘write’ the human genome-unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children

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Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure

a compulsively readable thriller

ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness

and of revolutionaries

you must seek clarity

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver

keenly aware of all the ways in which her family is different from most of her classmates’