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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Part I: 1982–1989
1 Dennis Revisited
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
6 True North
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
10 Great Aunts
11 Introduction: Reading Blind, The Best American Short Stories
12 The Public Woman as Honorary Man: The Warrior Queens, by Antonia Fraser
13 Writing Utopia
Part II: 1990–2000
14 A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King
15 Nine Beginnings
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
21 The Grunge Look
22 Not So Grimm: The Staying Power of Fairy Tales: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, by Marina Warner
23 A Rich Dessert from a Saucy Carter: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, by Angela Carter
24 An Experiment in Love, by Hilary Mantel
25 In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction
26 Masterpiece Theatre: Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, by Lewis Hyde
27 The Awkward Sublime
Part III: 2001–2004
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
34 Tiff and the Animals
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
41 Letter to America
42 Writing Oryx and Crake
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
50 To Beechy Island
51 Mortification
Acknowledgements
Index
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