From the Large Print - First large print edition.
PART I: 2004-2009. What will happen next? --
Five visits to the word-hoard --
Trees of life, trees of death --
Alice Munro: an appreciation --
PART II: 2010-2013. Art is our nature --
The writer as political agent? Really? --
Literature and the environment --
Rachel Carson anniversary --
How to change the world? --
PART III: 2014-2016. Which is to be master --
The summer of the stromatolites --
Reflections on The handmaid's tale --
We are double-plus unfree --
PART IV: 2017-2019. How slippery is the slope? --
We lost Ursula Le Guin when we needed her most --
Greetings, earthlings! What are these human rights of which you speak? --
PART V: 2020-2021. Thought and memory --
Growing up in quarantineland --
The writing of The testaments --
The bedside book of birds --
Perpetual motion and gentleman death --
Caught in time's current --
