We would like to acknowledge the following sources of the work contained in this volume:
1. Dennis Revisited. Descant, No. 39 (Winter 1982), pp. 13–15.
2. Wondering What It’s Like to Be a Woman. Review of The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike. New York Times Book Review, 13 May 1984, pp. 1, 40.
3. The Sorcerer as Apprentice. Review of Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino. New York Times Book Review, 1 October 1984, p. 13.
4. Margaret Atwood Remembers Marian Engel. Saturday Night, Vol. 100, No. 8 (August 1985), pp. 38–40.
5. Introduction to Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada by Susanna Moodie. (London: Virago, 1986), pp. vii–xiv.
6. True North. Saturday Night, Vol. 102, No. 1 (January 1987), pp. 141–44, 146, 148.
7. Haunted by Their Nightmares. Review of Beloved by Toni Morrison. New York Times Book Review, 13 September 1987, pp. 1, 49–50.
8. Afterword to A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. (Toronto: M&S, 1988), pp. 211–15.
9. Preface to The Canadian Green Consumer Guide, eds. Pollution Probe Foundation, Warner Troyer, and Glenys Moss. (Toronto: M&S, 1989), pp. 2–3.
10. Great Aunts. From Family Portraits: Remembrances by Twenty Distinguished Writers, ed. Carolyn Anthony. (New York: Doubleday, 1989).
11. Introduction: Reading Blind. Introduction to The Best American Short Stories, 1989, eds. Margaret Atwood and Shannon Ravenel. (New York: Houghton, 1989), pp. xi–xxiii.
12. The Public Woman as Honorary Man. Review of The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser. Los Angeles Times Book Review, 2 April 1989, p. 3.
13. Writing Utopia. Unpublished speech, 1989.
14. A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King. From Native Writers and Canadian Writing, ed. W. H. New. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1990), pp. 243–50.
15. Nine Beginnings. From The Writer on Her Work, Volume 2, ed. Janet Sternburg. (New York: Norton, 1990, 2000), pp. 150–56.
16. A Slave to His Own Liberation. Review of The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez. New York Times Book Review, 16 September 1990, pp. 1, 30.
17. Afterword to Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Toronto, M&S, 1992), pp. 331–36.
18. Introduction: The Early Years. Introduction to The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Early Years, eds. Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan. (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993) pp. vii–xii.
19. Why I Love Night of the Hunter. Review of The Night of the Hunter, dir. Charles Laughton (1955). The Guardian, 19 March 1999, p. 12.
20. Spotty-handed Villainesses: Problems of Female Bad Behaviour in the Creation of Literature. An address delivered in the Cheltenham Lecture Series, University of Gloucester, 8 October 1993.
21. The Grunge Look. From Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology, ed. Constance Rooke. (Toronto: M&S, 1994), pp. 1–11.
22. Not So Grimm: The Staying Power of Fairy Tales. Review of From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner. Los Angeles Times Book Review, 29 October 1995, p. 1.
23. A Rich Dessert from a Saucy Carter. Review of Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter. Globe and Mail, 6 April 1996, p. C18.
24. Review of An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel. New York Times Book Review, 2 June 1996, p. 11.
25. In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction. An address given at Bronfman Lecture Series (Ottawa: November 1996), Smithsonian Institute (Washington: 11 December 1996), Chicago Library Foundations (6 January 1997), Oberlin College Friends of the Library (8 February 1997), City Arts & Lectures (San Francisco: 5 March 1997). Reprinted in American Historical Review, Vol. 103, No. 5 (December 1998), p. 1503 (1).
26. Masterpiece Theatre. Review of Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde. Los Angeles Times Book Review, 25 January 1998, p. 7.
27. The Awkward Sublime. BorderCrossings, Vol. 19, No. 4 (November 2000), pp. 46–51.
28. Mordecai Richler: 1931–2001: Diogenes of Montreal. Globe and Mail, 4 July 2001, pp. R1, R7.
29. Introduction to She by H. Rider Haggard. (New York: Random House, 2002), pp. xvii–xxiv.
30. When Afghanistan Was at Peace. New York Times Magazine, 28 October 2001, p. 82.
31. Mystery Man. Review of: The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960, eds. Richard Layman and Julie Rivett; Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers by Jo Hammett; and Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings, ed. Steven Marcus. New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, No. 2 (14 February 2002), pp. 19–21.
32. Of Myths and Men. Review of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, dir. Zacharias Kunuk (2001). Globe and Mail, 13 April 2002, p. R10.
33. Cops and Robbers. Review of Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard. New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, No. 9 (23 May 2002), pp. 21–23.
34. Tiff and the Animals. An address delivered on the occasion of the Timothy Findley Memorial Evening, University of Toronto, 29 September 2002.
35. The Indelible Woman. The Guardian, 7 September 2002.
36. The Queen of Quinkdom. Review of The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, No. 14 (26 September 2002).
37. Introduction to Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee, ed. Christian Bök. (Toronto: Anansi, 2002), pp. ix–xv.
38. The Wrong Box: Matt Cohen, Fabulism and Critical Taxonomy. From Uncommon Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen, eds. Graeme Gibson, Wayne Grady, Dennis Lee, and Priscila Uppal. (Toronto: Knopf, 2002), pp. 66–82.
39. Introduction to Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg, trans. Paul Britten Austin. (New York: Anchor, 2002), pp. 5–10.
40. Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes. From “Bonaparte to Bush: You’ll Be Sorry.” Globe and Mail, 1 March 2003, p. A17.
41. Letter to America. The Nation, 14 April 2003, pp. 22–23.
42. Writing Oryx and Crake. Book-of-the-Month Club/Bookspan (January 2003).
43. George Orwell: Some Personal Connections. An address broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 13 June 2003. Reprinted as “Orwell and Me,” The Guardian, 16 June 2003.
44. Arguing Against Ice Cream. Review of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben. New York Review of Books, 12 June 2003, pp. 6, 8, 10.
45. Victory Gardens. Foreword to A Breath of Fresh Air: Celebrating Nature and School Gardens by Elise Houghton. (Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003), pp. 13–19.
46. Carol Shields, Who Died Last Week, Wrote Books That Were Full of Delights. From “Lives & Letters: Carol Shields.” The Guardian, 26 July 2003, p. 28.
47. Resisting the Veil: Reports from a Revolution. Review of: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi; Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi; The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri; Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski; The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis; and The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf. The Walrus, Vol. 1, No. 1 (October 2003), pp. 86–89.
48. Introduction to The Complete Stories, Volume 4 by Morley Callaghan. (Toronto: Exile Editions, 2003), pp. ix–xix.
49. He Springs Eternal. Review of Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel. New York Review of Books, 6 November 2003, pp. 78–80.
50. To Beechy Island. From Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage, ed. Katherine Govier. (Toronto: M&S, 2004), pp. 201–16.
51. Mortification. From Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame, ed. Robin Robertson. (London: Fourth Estate, 2003), pp. 1–4.