2 Wondering What It’s Like to Be a Woman: The Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike
3 The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Difficult Loves, by Italo Calvino
4 Margaret Atwood Remembers Marian Engel
5 Introduction to Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie
7 Haunted by Their Nightmares: Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8 Afterword to A Jest of God, by Margaret Laurence
9 Preface to The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
11 Introduction: Reading Blind, The Best American Short Stories
12 The Public Woman as Honorary Man: The Warrior Queens, by Antonia Fraser
14 A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King
16 A Slave to His Own Liberation: The General in His Labyrinth, by Gabriel García Márquez
17 Afterword to Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
18 Introduction: The Early Years, The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen
19 Why I Love The Night of the Hunter
20 Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems of Female Bad Behaviour in the Creation of Literature
24 An Experiment in Love, by Hilary Mantel
25 In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction
28 Mordecai Richler: 1931–2001: Diogenes of Montreal
29 Introduction to She, by H. Rider Haggard
30 When Afghanistan Was at Peace
31 Mystery Man: Some Clues to Dashiell Hammett
32 Of Myths and Men: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
33 Cops and Robbers: Tishomingo Blues, by Elmore Leonard
35 The Indelible Woman: To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
36 The Queen of Quinkdom: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, by Ursula K. Le Guin
37 Introduction to Ground Works, edited by Christian Bök
38 The Wrong Box: Matt Cohen, Fabulism, and Critical Taxonomy
39 Introduction to Doctor Glas, by Hjalmar Söderberg
40 Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes
43 George Orwell: Some Personal Connections
44 Arguing Against Ice Cream: Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, by Bill McKibben
45 Foreword: Victory Gardens, A Breath of Fresh Air, by Elise Houghton
46 Carol Shields, Who Died Last Week, Wrote Books That Were Full of Delights
47 Resisting the Veil: Reports from a Revolution
48 Introduction to The Complete Stories, Volume 4, by Morley Callaghan
49 He Springs Eternal: Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times, by Studs Terkel