Burning Questions

<p><b>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: </b><br><br>Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?<br>How can we live on our planet?<br>What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?<br><br>In <i>Burning Questions</i> 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.<br><br><br><b>INCLUDES NEW ESSAYS FOR PAPERBACK</b><br><br>'Brilliant and funny'<b> Joan Didion</b><br><br>'She's taken our times and made us wise to them'<b> Ali Smith</b><br><br>'Lights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty' <i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><br>'All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood's name is written at the top of it<b>' Anne Enright, </b><i><b>Guardian</b></i><br><br>'The outstanding novelist of our age' <i><b>Sunday Times</b></i></p>\n\n<p><b>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: </b><br><br>Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?<br>How can we live on our planet?<br>What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?<br><br>In <i>Burning Questions</i> 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.<br><br><br><b>INCLUDES NEW ESSAYS FOR PAPERBACK</b><br><br>'Brilliant and funny'<b> Joan Didion</b><br><br>'She's taken our times and made us wise to them'<b> Ali Smith</b><br><br>'Lights a fire from the fears of our age . . . Miraculously balances humor, outrage, and beauty' <i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><br>'All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood's name is written at the top of it<b>' Anne Enright, </b><i><b>Guardian</b></i><br><br>'The outstanding novelist of our age' <i><b>Sunday Times</b></i></p>