Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

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  Science 302.5648 (14 November 2003): 1154-1155. By Susan M. SQUIER.

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  The Scotsman 10 May 2003: 7. By Jane SHILLING. (421 w).

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  St. Petersburg Times 4 May 2003: Section: Perspective: 4D. By Colette BANCROFT. (635 w).

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  The Times (London) 23 April 2003: Section: Features: 13. By Erica WAGNER. (840 w).

  Times Colonist (Victoria, BC) 27 April 2003: D8. By Joe WEIBE. (589 w).

  Times Union (Albany, NY) 8 June 2003: Section: Books: J5. By John FREEMAN. (578 w).

  TLS 5224 (16 May 2003): 19-20. By Ronald WRIGHT.

  Toronto Star 27 April 2003: Section: Entertainment: D12. By Philip MARCHAND. (1630 w).

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  USA Today 27 May 2003: Section: Life: 05d. By Jackie PRAY.

  Village Voice 8 July 2003: Section: Books: 52. By Dennis LIM. (177 w).

  Virginia-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) 29 June 2003: Section: Daily Break: E5. By Rosemary ARMAO. (654 w).

  Washington Post 27 April 2003: Section: Book World: T03. By Thomas M. DISCH. (837 w).

  Weekend Australian 3 May 2003: Section: Review: B08. By Helen ELLIOTT. (753 w).

  Windsor Star (ON) 10 May 2003: F7. By Anne-Marie TOBIN. (496 w).

  Wired 11.5 (May 2003): 78. By Allison WILLMORE.

  3548. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Books on Tape, 2003. 7 cassettes. Unabridged.

  Library Journal 128.20 (December 2003): 184. By Laurie SELWYN.

  Science 303.5648 (14 November 2003): 1154-1155. By Susan SQUIER.

  3549. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Read by Alex Jennings. [London]: Blooms-bury, 2003.

  The Guardian (London) 2 August 2003: Section: Saturday Pages: 18. By Sue ARNOLD. (413 w).

  The Observer 10 August 2003: Section: Observer Review Pages: 18. By Rachel REDFORD. (271 w).

  Sunday Times 3 August 2003: Section: Features: 47. By Karen ROBINSON. (135 w).

  3550. Oryx and Crake. [Sound recording]. Read by Campbell Scott. Random House Audio, 2003. 9 cassettes, 10.5 hours.

  Booklist 100.4 (15 October 2003): 443. By Whitney SCOTT. (145 w).

  Kliatt 37.6 (November 2003): 51. By Nancy C. CHAPLIN. (159 w).

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 3 August 2003: Section: Cue: 07E. By Rochelle O’GORMAN. (285 w).

  3551. Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes. Toronto: Key Porter Kids, 2003.

  Chatelaine 76.12 (December 2003): 36. ANON.

  Globe & Mail 13 September 2003: D13. By Kevin BOLGER.

  London Free Press (ON) 27 September 2003: Section: Lifestyles: D10. By Bob BISHOP. (106 w).

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  Toronto Star 28 September 2003: Section: Entertainment: D15. By Deirdre BAKER. (292 w).

  Toronto Sun 21 September 2003: Section: Showcase: S23. By Bob BISHOP. (106 w).

  Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  3552. RUDERS, Poul. The Handmaid’s Tale. Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, 1998-2002? Based on Atwood’s novel; libretto by Paul Bentley.

  First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life 137 (November 2003): 14-17. By Michael LINTON.

  Performance in London reviewed:

  Brockville Record & Times (ON) 5 April 2003: Section: Entertainment: D10. By Sharon LINDORES. (622 w).

  Daily Telegraph (London) 5 April 2003: 18. By Rupert CHRISTIANSEN. (591 w).

  Edmonton Journal 5 April 2003: Section: Entertainment: E2. By Sharon LIN-DORES. (526 w).

  Evening Standard (London) 4 April 2003: 34. By Brian HUNT. (417 w).

  Financial Times 7 April 2003: Section: Arts: 17. By Andrew CLARK. (1033 w).

  The Guardian (London) 5 April 2003: Section: Guardian Leader Pages: 18. By Andrew CLEMENTS. (427 w).

  The Independent 8 April 2003: s.l. By Keith POTTER. (501 w). Available from Lexis-Nexis.

  Morning Star 9 April 2003: 9. By David NICHOLSON. (610 w).

  Scotland on Sunday 13 April 2003: 9. By Louise RIMMER. (1013 w).

  The Stage 17 April 2003: 17. By George HALL. (264 w).

  Sunday Express 13 April 2003: Section: Features: 63. By David FINGLETON. (507 w).

  Sunday Telegraph (London) 6 April 2003: 05. By Michael KENNEDY. (1210 w).

  The Times (London) 5 April 2003: Section: Features: 27. By Robert THICK-NESSE. (500 w).

  TLS 11 April 2003: 20. By Andrew POTTER.

  Performance by Minnesota Opera reviewed:

  Edmonton Journal 16 May 2003: E18. By Anthony TOMMASINI. (547 w).

  Opera News 68.2 (August 2003): 64-65. By Joshua ROSENBLUM.

  Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) 12 May 2003: Section: News: 2B. By Michael ANTHONY. (759 w).

  St. Petersburg Times 8 June 2003: Section: Floridian: 10F. By John FLEMING. (1135 w).

  USA Today 5 May 2003: Section: Life: 04d. By Thomas MAY. (601 w).

  ~ 2004 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  3553. Adam Küsh Kür. Tehran [Iran]: Ququnüs, 2004. Persian translation of The Blind Assassin by Shahin Asayash.

  3554. “The Age of Lead.” Telling Tales. Ed. Nadine Gordimer. New York: Picador (Far-rar, Straus & Giroux), 2004. 87-104. Short story reprinted from Wilderness Tips, ©1991.

  3555. “Amazement.” Prize Writing: The 10th Anniversary Collection. Ed. Gary Stephen Ross. Toronto: Giller Prize Foundation in association with Coach House Press, 2004. 39-48. Atwood reminisces about the writing of Alias Grace which won the Giller Prize in 1996.

  3557. “Anger Management.” National P
ost 24 June 2004: A18. In comment piece, co-written with Jack Rabinovitch (of Giller Prize fame), Atwood remarks on the current crop of Canadian political leaders.

  3558. “The Art of the Matter: Science Is a Tool—The Arts Express Those Dreams for Which We Want to Use Our Tools.” Globe and Mail 24 January 2004: A19. Excerpt from “Scientific Romancing,” the 2004 Kesterton Lecture, delivered 22 January by Atwood at the Carleton University School of Journalism (Ottawa).

  3559. “The Arts Go Marching One by One: Which Candidates Are Serving Up Nourishing Cultural Policies? Voters Should Look Before They Bite.” Globe and Mail 9 June 2004: A23. Column written in connection with the 2004 federal election. See also Terrence Corcoran, “Canadian Culture Safe with Canadians.” National Post 12 June 2004: Section: Financial Post Comment: FP11.

  3560. “At Brute Point.” TLS [Times Literary Supplement] 5299 (22 October 2004): 27. Poem.

  3561. Atutai Andhu. Dhaka [Bangladesh]: Shundash Bui Phura, 2004. Bengali translation of The Blind Assassin by Muhammad Shafi’nl’alam.

  3562. Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda. Toronto: Key Porter, 2004. “Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda is a boisterous and delightful dissertation on discovering the uncharted depths of one’s personality. Abandoned by his bubble-headed mum and raised by a bunch of dogs, Bob is understandably bashful around humans. Deprived of her parents while still in diapers, Dorinda endures a dreadful existence with distant relatives. On a dark and drizzly December….” (Publisher).

  3563. The Blind Assassin. London: Virago, 2004. Originally published London: Blooms-bury, 2000.

  3564. The Blind Assassin. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2004. 1 CD-ROM. “Suitable for use with adaptive technology for the print disabled.”

  3565. Bottle. Hay, UK: Hay Festival Press, 2004. Short stories. Contents: “Bottle,” 7-11; “It’s Not Easy Being Half-Divine,” 13-17; “King Log in Exile,” 19-23; “Take Charge,” 25-29; “Thylacine Ragout,” 31-34; “Post-Colonial,” 35-39; “Faster,” 41-42; “Nightingale,” 43-49; “Bottle II,” 51-54.

  3566. Cat’s Eye. London: Virago, 2004. Reprint.

  3567. Cat’s Eye. [Electronic resource]. Toronto: CNIB, 2004. Computer data (202 files: 558 mb). Audio and text.

  3568. “Death by Landscape.” Contemporary Fiction: 50 Short Stories since 1970. Ed. Lex Williford and Michael Martone. New York: Simon & Schuster for Borders Books, 2004. 31-45. Reprinted from Wilderness Tips, ©1991.

  3569. “[Excerpt].” Air Fare: Stories, Poems & Essays on Flight. Ed. Nickole Brown and Judith Taylor. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2004. 149-155. From Cat’s Eye (Chapter 68), ©1988.

  3570. “[Excerpt].” Globe and Mail 14 August 2004: Section: Weekend Review: R1. At-wood not alone among novelists writing lyrics for One Ring Zero’s new album. Article by Carl Wilson entitled “Lit Rock Is on a Roll” excerpts some of Atwood’s lyrics from “Frankenstein Monster Song”: “Doctor, doctor, / You’re the one to blame. / You put me together, / You forgot the name. / Sew me a lady, / Sew me a lady, / Sew me a monster lady / just like me.” The author recently donated her lyrics to One Ring Zero—a quirky two-man Brooklyn band with a klezmer-meets-indie-rock sound.

  3571. “[Excerpt].” Globe and Mail 2 October 2004: D9. From “A Double-Bladed Knife” in Moving Targets.

  3572. “[Excerpt].” Maclean’s 24 May 2004: Section: Closing: 94. From Atwood’s Frankenstein Monster Song: “Doctor, doctor, / You’re the one to blame. / You put me together, / You forgot the name. / Sew me a lady, / Sew me a lady, / Sew me a monster lady / Just like me. / I’ve got a dead man’s heart and a dead man’s brain / I look in the mirror and it’s pure pain.”

  3573. “[Excerpt].” National Post 27 March 2004: Section: Books: RB7. Atwood’s Edmonton story excerpted from Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame. Ed. Robin Robertson. New York: Fourth Estate, 2003.

  3574. “[Excerpt].” Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2004. 20-26. Reprinted from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, ©1972.

  3575. “Hairball.” More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women. Ed. Wendy Martin. New York: Pantheon, 2004. 99-114. Reprinted from Wilderness Tips, ©1991.

  3576. The Handmaid’s Tale. [Toronto]: Seal Books, 2004. Paperback ©1985.

  3577. The Handmaid’s Tale. [Electronic resource]. Vancouver, BC: Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired, 2004. 1 CD-ROM. “Suitable for use with adaptive technology for the print disabled.”

  3578. The Handmaid’s Tale. [Sound recording]. Read by Michael O’Brien. Fredericton, NB: BTC Audio Books, 2004. Unabridged. 2 CD-ROMS (ca. 2 hours).

  3579. “The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake in Context.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119.3 (May 2004): 513-517. Essay on science v. speculative fiction that originated as a keynote address at the 5th Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, held in August 2003 in Toronto.

  3580. “Handmaids’ Tales.” The Times (London) 21 August 2004: Section: Features: Weekend Review: 8. Atwood reviews From Eve to Dawn, Marilyn French’s 3-volume history of women. (1661 w).

  3581. “Haunted by a Face.” National Post 2 October 2004: RB1. Reprint of Atwood’s introduction to Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie and John Geiger.

  3582. “Headscarves to Die For.” New York Times 15 August 2004: Section: 7: 1. At-wood reviews Snow, Turkish writer Orthan Pamuk’s 7th novel. (1378 w).

  3583. “I Left Ottawa in a Packsack.” Globe and Mail 7 February 2004: R14. Atwood writes about her early life experiences after delivering Carleton University’s Ke-sterton Lecture in January.

  3584. Il racconto dell’ancella. Milan: Editore Ponte alle Grazie, 2004. Italian translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Camillo Pennati.

  3585. “Introduction.” Carol Shields: Collected Stories. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. [xiii]-xvii.

  3586. “Introduction.” Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition. Owen Beat-tie and John Geiger. Rev. edition. Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books (Douglas & McIntyre), 2004. 1-8. On occasion of reissue of title originally published in 1987.

  3587. “It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers.” An Invitation to Poetry. Ed. Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz. New York: Norton, 2004. 12-13. Reprinted from Selected Poems 1965-1975, ©1976.

  3588. Kobieta Go Zjedzenia. Poznan: Zyski S-ka Wydawn, 2004. Paperback. Polish translation of The Edible Woman by Malgorzata Golewska-Stafiej.

  3589. La mujer comestible. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 2004. Spanish translation of The Edible Woman.

  3590. “A Little Light Musing.” Globe and Mail 22 May 2004: D7. Review of Acquainted with the Night: Excursion Through the World After Dark by Christopher Dewdney (HarperCollins). Dewdney’s father was a “canoe tripping pal” of At-wood’s father and Dewdney himself attended Atwood’s mother’s 90th birthday.

  3591. “Lusus Naturae.” McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories. Ed. Michael Chabon. New York: Vintage Books, 2004. 3-9.

  3592. Margaret Atwood Presents Stories by Canada’s Best New Women Writers. [Sound recording]. Fredericton, NB: BTC Audiobooks, 2004. 2 CD-ROMS (ca. 2 hours). Stories by Nancy Lee, Caroline Anderson, Annabel Lyon, Elise Levine, Lisa Moore, Kristi-Ly Green, and Sheila Heti selected and introduced by Atwood. First broadcast on CBC Radio, 6 April-11 May 2003.

  3593. Matin dans la maison incendiée. Trois-Rivières: Écrits des Forges, 2004. French translation of Morning in the Burned House by Marie Évangeline Arsenault.

  3594. “The Mays of Vetadorn.” American Poetry Review 33.3 (May-June 2004): 29. A review of W. S. Merwin’s The Mays of Ventadorn. Washington, DC: National Geographic Directions, 2002.

  3595. Mo Shi Nan Nü. [Taipei]: Tian pei wen hua you xian gong si, 2004. Chinese translation of Oryx and Crake. Title romanized.

  3596. Morning in the Burned House. [Sound recording]. Read
by Renate Preuss. Vancouver, BC: Crane Resource Centre, 2004. 1 compact disc in MP3 audio format. “Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment.”

  3597. Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982-2004. Toronto: Anansi, 2004. Includes 51 short pieces penned by Atwood since 1982; a companion volume to Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (Toronto: Anansi, 1982). Includes “Dennis Revisited,” 13-16, on poet Dennis Lee. Originally published: Descant 39 (Winter 1982): 13-15.—“Wondering What It’s Like to Be a Woman. [Review of] The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike,” 17-22. Originally published: New York Times Book Review 13 May 1984: 1, 40.—“The Sorcerer as Apprentice. [Review of] Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino,” 23-25. Originally published: New York Times Book Review 1 October 1984: 13.—“Margaret Atwood Remembers Marian Engel,” 26-33. Originally published: Saturday Night 11.8 (August 1985): 38-40.—“Introduction [to] Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada,” 34-42. Originally published: London: Virago, 1986. vii-xiv.—“True North,” 43-58. Originally published: Saturday Night 102.1 (January 1987): 141-144, 146, 148.—“Haunted by Their Nightmares. [Review of] Beloved by Toni Morrison,” 59-64. Originally published: New York Times Book Review 13 September 1987: 1, 49-50.—“Afterword [to] A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence,” 65-69. Originally published: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1988. 211-215.—“Preface [to] the Canadian Green Consumer Guide,” 70-71. Originally published: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989: 2-3.—“Great Aunts,” 72-84. Reprinted from Family Portraits: Remembrances by Twenty Distinguished Writers. Ed. Carolyn Anthony. New York: Dou-bleday, 1989. 3-16.—“Introduction: Reading Blind.” (Atwood’s introduction to The Best American Short Stories, 1989. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Shannon Rave-nel), 85-98. Originally published: New York: Houghton, 1989. xi-xxiii.—“The Public Woman as Honorary Man. [Review of] The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser,” 99-101. Originally published: Los Angeles Times Book Review 2 April 1989: 3.—“Writing Utopia” (on the origins of The Handmaid’s Tale), 102-111. Unpublished speech, 1989.—“A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King,” 119-129. Originally published: Native Writers and Canadian Writing. Ed. W. H. New. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1990. 243-250.— “Nine Beginnings,” 130-136. Originally published: The Writer on Her Work, Vol. 2. Ed. Janet Sternberg. New York: Norton: 1990, 2000. 150-156.—“A Slave to His Own Liberation. [Review of] The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Marquez,” 137-140. Originally published: New York Times Book Review 16 September 1990: 1, 30.—“Afterword [to] Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery,” 141-146. Originally published: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992. 331-336.—“Introduction: Early Years” [Introduction to] The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Early Years. Ed. Margaret Atwood and Barry Cal-laghan, 147-151. Originally published: Toronto: Exile Editions, 1993. vii-xii.— “Why I Love The Night of the Hunter,” 152-156. (Review of The Night of the Hunter, dir. Charles Laughton, 1955). Originally published: The Guardian 19 March 1999: 12.—“Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems of Female Bad Behaviour in the Creation of Literature,” 157-172. An address delivered in the Cheltenham Lecture Series, University of Gloucester, 8 October 1993.—“The Grunge Look,” 173-182. Originally published: Writing Away: The PEN Canada Travel Anthology. Ed. Constance Rooke. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1994. 1-11.— “Not So Grimm: The Staying Power of Fairy Tales. [Review of] From the Beast to the Blond: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner,” 183-187. Originally published: Los Angeles Times Book Review 29 October 1995: 1.—“Rich Dessert from a Saucy Carter. [Review of] Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter,” 188-190. Originally published: Globe and Mail 6 May 1996: C18.—“[Review of] An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel,” 191-195. Originally published: New York Times Book Review 2 June 1996: 11.—“In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction,” 196-217. An address given at Bronfman Lecture Series (Ottawa: November 1996), Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC: 11 December 1996), Chicago Library Foundations (6 January 1997), Oberlin College Friends of the Library (8 February 1997), City Arts & Lectures (San Francisco: 5 March 1997). Reprinted in American Historical Review 103.5 (December 1998): 1503-[1516].—“Masterpiece Theatre. [Review of] Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art [and] The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde,” 218-223. Originally published: Los Angeles Times Book Review 25 January 1998: 7.—“The Awkward Sublime,” 224-225, on Al Purdy’s poetry. Originally published: BorderCrossings 19.4 (November 2000): 46-51.—“Mordecai Richler, 1931–2001: Diogenes of Montreal,” 232-233. Originally published: Globe and Mail 4 July 2001: R1, R7.— “Introduction [to] She by H. Rider Haggard,” 234-241. Originally published: New York: Random House, 2002. xvii-xxiv.—“When Afghanistan Was at Peace,” 242-244. Originally published: New York Times Magazine 28 October 2001: 82.— “Mystery Man: Some Clues to Dashiell Hammett,” 245-258. Review of The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960. Ed. Richard Layman with Julie Rivett; Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers, by Jo Hammett. Ed. Richard Layman with Julie Rivett; Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings. Selected and ed. Steven Marcus. Originally published: New York Review of Books 49.2 (14 February 2002): 19-21.—“Of Myths and Men. [Review of] Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner,” 259-262. (Dir. Zacharias Kunuk, 2001). Originally published: Globe and Mail 13 April 2002: R10.—“Cops and Robbers. [Review of] Tishom-ingo Blues by Elmore Leonard,” 263-274. Originally published: New York Review of Books 49.9 (23 May 2002): 21-23.—“Tiff and the Animals (On the Occasion of the Timothy Findley Memorial Evening, Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, September 29, 2002),” 275-280. Unpublished address.—“The Indelible Woman. [Comment on] To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf,” 278-280. Originally published: The Guardian 7 September 2002: [7].—“The Queen of Quinkdom. [Review of] The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin,” 281-292. Originally published: New York Review of Books 49.14 (26 September 2002): [23-25].—“Introduction [to] Ground Works. Ed. Christian Bök,” 293-299. Originally published: Toronto: Anansi, 2002. ix-xv.—“The Wrong Box: Matt Cohen, Fabulism and Critical Taxonomy,” 300-314. Originally published: From Common Ground: A Celebration of Matt Cohen. Ed. Graeme Gibson, Wayne Grady, Dennis Lee, and Priscila Uppal. Toronto: Knopf, 2002. 66-82.—“Introduction [to] Dr. Glas by Hjalmar Söderberg,” 315-319. Originally published: New York: Anchor, 2002: 5-10.—“Napoleon’s Two Biggest Mistakes,” 320-323. Originally published: Globe and Mail 1 March 2003: A17.—“Letter to America,” 324-327. Originally published: The Nation 14 April 2003: 22-23.—“Writing Oryx and Crake,” 328-330. Originally published Book-of-the-Month Club / Bookspan. January 2003.— “George Orwell: Some Personal Connections,” 331-338. An address broadcast on BBC Radio, 3 and 13 June 2003. Reprinted as “Orwell and Me.” The Guardian 16 June 2003: [4].—“Arguing Against Ice Cream. [Review of] Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben,” 339-350. Originally published: New York Review of Books 12 June 2003: 6, 8, 10.—“Victory Gardens. [Foreword to] A Breath of Fresh Air by Elise Houghton,” 351-359. Originally published: Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003. 13-19.—“Carol Shields, Who Died Last Week, Wrote Books That Were Full of Delights,” 360-363. Originally published: The Guardian 26 July 2003: 28.—“Resisting the Veil: Reports from a Revolution,” 364-371. Review of the following books: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Sa-trapi; Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi; The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri; Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuściński; The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis; The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf. Originally published: The Walrus 1.1 (October 2003): ix-xix.—“Introduction [to] The Complete Stories, Volume 4 by Morley Cal-laghan,” 372-381. Originally published: Toronto: Exile Editions, 2003. ix-xix.— “He Springs Eternal. [Review of] Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel,” 382-394. Originally published: New York Review of Books 6 November 2003: 78-80.—“To Beec
hy Island,” 395-405. Originally published: Solo: Writers on Pilgrimage. Ed. Katherine Govier. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2004. 201-216.—“Mortification,” 406-409. Originally published: Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame. Ed. Robin Robertson. London: Fourth Estate, 2003. 1-4.