BURNING QUESTIONS

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories`How can we live on our planet`What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism`In Burning Questions Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom: from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.INCLUDES NEW ESSAYS FOR PAPERBACKBrilliant and funny Joan DidionShes taken our times and made us wise to them Ali SmithLights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty New York Times Book ReviewAll over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwoods name is written at the top of it Anne Enright, GuardianThe outstanding novelist of our age Sunday Times