Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on….

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pur….

I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I r….

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling..

My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it didn't really….

Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the mo….

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge..

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being ….

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names..

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice..

So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them….

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like….

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no s….

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac….

Powerlessness and silence go together..

You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye.

oil paints...the look of licked lips..

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women..

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radicall….

Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over th….