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Part I : 2004-2009. What will happen next ? P. 3 Scientific romancing P. 14 Frozen in time P. 21 From Eve to dawn P. 26 Polonia P. 32 Somebody's daughter P. 37 Five visits to the word-hoard P. 49 The echo maker P. 60 Wetlands P. 67 Trees of life, trees of death P. 78 Ryszard Kapuściński P. 83 Anne of Green Gables P. 92 Alice Munro: an appreciation P. 105 Ancient balances P. 119 Scrooge P. 124 A writing life Part II : 2010 to 2013. Art is our nature P. 131 The writer as political agent ? Really ? P. 137 Literature and the environment P. 148 Alice Munro P. 150 The gift P. 156 Bring up the bodies P. 160 Rachel Carson anniversary P. 169 The futures market P. 184 Why I wrote Maddaddam P. 189 Seven gothic tales P. 195 Doctor sleep P. 199 Doris Lessing P. 202 How to change the world ? Part III : 2014 to 2016. Which is to be master P. 217 In translationland P. 230 On beauty P. 234 The summer of the stromatolites P. 236 Kafka P. 243 Future library P. 245 Reflections on The handmaid's tale P. 259 We are double-plus unfree P. 266 Buttons or bows ? P. 271 Gabrielle Roy P. 293 Shakespeare and me P. 306 Marie-Claire Blais P. 311 Kiss of the fur queen P. 313 We hang by a thread Part IV : 2017 to 2019. How slippery is the slope ? P. 323 What art under Trump ? P. 328 The illustrated man P. 335 Am I a bad feminist ? P. 340 We lost Ursula Le Guin when we needed her most P. 344 Three tarot cards P. 361 A slave state? P. 363 Oryx and Crake P. 368 Greetings, earthlings! What are these human rights of which you speak? P. 380 Payback P. 384 Memory of fire P. 387 Tell. The. Truth. Part V : 2020 to 2021. Thought and memory P. 393 Growing up in quarantineland P. 398 The equivalents P. 402 Inseparable P. 408 We P. 414 The writing of The testaments P. 424 The bedside book of birds P. 427 Perpetual motion and gentleman death P. 433 Caught in time's current P. 440 Big science P. 444 Barry Lopez P. 446 The sea trilogy