‘I’m in favour of holding the centre in so far as it’s possible,’ says Margaret Atwood. Does Atwood feel especially close to that novel? Nonetheless, Atwood recalls in her 2020 foreword to The Bedside Book of Birds, which is included in Burning Questions, he still liked to watch them. She has also included in Burning Questions the 2020 introduction she wrote for his novels Perpetual Motion and Gentleman Death. But then – as she has done so often in her books – Atwood surprises me with a plot twist.

Source: The Guardian February 20, 2022 00:23 UTC