Margaret Atwood

by Shannon Hengen

Journal (Providence) 29 January 1989. NewsBank 1989: 13: C11. By Beverly Lyon CLARK.

  Journal of Commonwealth Literature 24.2 (1989): 40. By W. H. NEW.

  Library Journal 114.2 (1 February 1989): 81. By Barbara HOFFERT.

  Listener 121 (26 January 1989): 26. By Judy COOKE.

  Literary Review (London) 127 (January 1989): 22-23. By Susannah HERBERT.

  London Review of Books 11.2 (19 January 1989): 3, 5. Includes discussion of In-terlunar. By Dinah BIRCH.

  Los Angeles Times Book Review 19 February 1989: 3, 13. By Richard EDER.

  Mademoiselle 95 (February 1989): 94, 96. By Joyce MAYNARD.

  Minneapolis Star and Tribune 26 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 34: D5-6.

  Modern Maturity 32.2 (April-May 1989): 32. By Digby DIEHL.

  Ms. 17.9 (March 1989): 38, 41. By Alison LURIE.

  Nation 248.22 (5 June 1989): 776-779. By Lillian S. ROBINSON.

  New Leader 72.5 (6 March 1989): 19. By Carole CLEAVER.

  New Republic 200.15 (10 April 1989): 38-40. By Hermione LEE.

  New Statesman and Society 2.34 (27 January 1989): 37. By Carole ANGIER.

  New York 22.7 (13 February 1989): 80, 82. By Rhoda KOENIG.

  New York Review of Books 36.7 (27 April 1989): 50-51. By Robert TOWERS.

  New York Times 28 January 1989: 16. By Caryn JAMES. (995 w).

  New York Times Book Review 5 February 1989: 1, 35. By Alice McDERMOTT. (1457 w).

  New York Times Book Review 17 December 1989: 32. By George JOHNSON.

  New Yorker 65.15 (29 May 1989): 108-110. By Judith THURMAN.

  Newsweek 20 March 1989: Section: The Arts: 80C. By Peter S. PRESCOTT. (405 w).

  Observer (London) 29 January 1989: 49. By Claire TOMALIN.

  Oregonian (Portland) 12 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 25: B14. By Paul PINTARICH.

  Orlando Sentinel 12 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 25: B13. By Nancy PATE.

  People Weekly 31 (27 February 1989): 22-23. By Susan TOEPFER.

  Philadelphia Inquirer 12 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 25: C1-3. By Janet BURROWAY.

  Publishers Weekly 235.2 (13 January 1989): 74. By Sybil STEINBERG.

  Publishers Weekly 236.18 (3 November 1989): 88. ANON. Punch 296 (27 January 1989): 49-50. By David BENEDICTUS.

  Queen’s Quarterly 96.2 (Summer 1989): 478-480. By Christine OVERALL.

  Radcliffe Quarterly December 1989: 34. By Hope Hale DAVIS.

  San Francisco Chronicle 22 January 1989: Section: Review: 1, 7. By Paul SKENAZY.

  School Library Journal 35.11 (July 1989): 98-99. By Alice CONLON.

  Seventeen 48 (August 1989): 126. ANON.

  Spectator 262 (28 January 1989): 32-33. By Anita BROOKNER.

  St. Louis Post Dispatch 5 March 1989: C5. By Lynn THEODORE. (1094 w).

  St. Petersburg Times 12 March 1989: Section: Books: 6D. By Kit REED. (937 w).

  Sunday News Journal (Wilmington, DE) 12 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 25:B12. By Gary SOULSMAN.

  Sunday Times (London) 29 January 1989: G7. By Peter KEMP. (747 w).

  Time 133.6 (6 February 1989): 70 [66 in the Canadian edition]. By Stefan KANFER.

  The Times (London) 26 January 1989: 19. By Philip HOWARD. (506 w).

  The Times (London) 22 July 1989: 40. By Philip HOWARD.

  Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 12 February 1989: E7-8. By Susan LARSON.

  TLS 3-9 February 1989: 113. By Shena MacKAY.

  Tribune (Oakland, CA) 26 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 34: D1-2. By Diana KETCHAM.

  University of Toronto Quarterly 59:1 (Fall 1989): 13. By Dennis DUFFY.

  USA Today 24 February 1989: D4. By Michele SLUNG.

  Village Voice 21 March 1989: 49-50. By Sharon THOMPSON.

  Vogue 179.2 (February 1989): 238. By Katha POLLITT.

  Washington Post Book World 19 February 1989: 1, 4. By Isabel COLEGATE (796 w).

  Washington Times (DC) 20 February 1989. NewsBank 1989: 25: C4-5. By Bruce BAWER.

  Women’s Review of Books 6.10-11 (July 1989): 3-4. By Helen YGLESIAS.

  371.The Handmaid’s Tale. London: J. Cape, 1986; London: Virago, 1987.

  Books 3.1 (April 1989): 19. By Michael BARBER.

  Sunday Times (London) 22 January 1989: G8. By Austin MacCURTAIN.

  372.Interlunar. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1984.

  London Review of Books 11.2 (19 January 1989): 3, 5. Includes discussion of Cat’s Eye. By Dinah BIRCH.

  Poetry Review 79.3 (Autumn 1989): 61-62. By Sheenagh PUGH.

  TLS 18-24 (August 1989): 903. By Lawrence NORFOLK.

  373.Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1983; London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

  Short Story Criticism. Ed. Sheila Fitzgerald. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1989. 18-20. By Ildiko [De Papp] CARRINGTON. Reprints the April 1984 review of Murder in the Dark from Women’s Review of Books.

  374.La Servante écarlate. Translated by Sylviane Rue. Paris: Laffont, 1987. [The Handmaid’s Tale.]

  Études (Paris) 370.4 (April 1989): 557. By Joelle TURIN.

  375.Selected Poems II. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1986; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

  Chronicles March 1989: 28-29. By Paul RAMSEY.

  World Literature Today 63.1 (Winter 1989): 103-104. By Joan Trodden KEEFE.

  ~ 1990 ~

  Atwood’s Works

  376.“The Age of Lead.” New Statesman and Society 3 (20 July 1990): 24-29. Also in Colours of a New Day: Writing for South Africa. Ed. Sarah Lefanu and Stephen Hayward. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1990, 204-219, and in Lear’s September 1990: 114-119, 144-146.

  377.Anadyse. Athens: Ekdoseis Hestia, 1990 ©1972. Greek translation of Surfacing.

  378.“The Boys’ Own Annual, 1911.” The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories. Selected by Michael Ondaatje. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990. 62-63. Except for title and copyright pages, the same as 1990 Viking (US) edition titled From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories. Selected by Michael Ondaatje. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark, ©1983.

  379.“Case of the Crazed Cashier.” Toronto Life 24.4 (March 1990): 46-47.

  380.Cat’s Eye. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990 ©1988. Large print edition.

  381.“Christmas Carols.” In the Gold of Flesh: Poems of Birth and Motherhood. Ed. Rosemary Palmeira. London: The Women’s Press, 1990. 155. Reprinted from True Stories, ©1981.

  382.“Death by Landscape.” Harper’s August 1990: 49-57 and in The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories. Ed. Alberto Manguel. Toronto; Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 1990. 221-237. Reprinted from Saturday Night 104.7 (July 1989): 46-53.

  383.“Death of a Young Son by Drowning.” In the Gold of Flesh: Poems of Birth and Motherhood. Ed. Rosemary Palmeira. London: The Women’s Press, 1990. 133. Reprinted from The Journals of Susanna Moodie, ©1970.

  384.Deklina Zgodba. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1990. Slovenian translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Miriam Drev.

  385.Den Berömde Poetens Grav, Och Andra Noveller. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Prisma, 1990. Swedish translation of various Atwood short stories by Maria Ekman. Includes: “Betty,” “Polariteter,” “Den berömde poetens grav,” “Hårsmycken,” “När det hander,” “Poeternas liv,” “Viktiga ögonblick i mors liv,” “Orkanen Hazel,” “Loulou, ellar Språkets hemliv,” “Blåskäggs ägg,” “Saltträdgården,” “Solupp-gång,” “Några avslöjanden.”

  386.Der lange Traum: Roman. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1990. German translation of Surfacing by Reinhild Böhnke.

  387.“Deserved Mention.” Globe and Mail 17 July 1990: A14. Letter to editor acknowledging David (Fire) Young, whose efforts were overlooked in an article on the Baffin Island Writers.

  388.Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe: Roman. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990. German translation of Life Before Man by Werner Waldhoff.

  389. “A Double-Bladed Knife: Subversive Laughter in Two Stories by Thomas King.” Canadian Literature 124-125 (Spring-Summer 1990): 243-250. Reprinted in Native Writers a
nd Canadian Writing. Ed. W. H. New. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1990. 243-250.

  390.El huevo de Barba Azul. Barcelona: Alcor, 1990. Spanish translation of Bluebeard’s Egg by Eduardo G. Murillo.

  391.“[Excerpt].” Erotica: An Anthology of Women’s Writing. Ed. Margaret Reynolds. London: Pandora, 1990. 18-21. Published in the United States as Erotica: Women’s Writings from Sappho to Margaret Atwood. Ed. Margaret Reynolds. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990. 18-21. Reprinted from The Handmaid’s Tale.

  392.“Eventual Proteus.” The Virago Book of Love Poetry. Ed. Wendy Mulford. London: Virago Press, 1990. 168-169.

  393.“An Exchange: Defense of PEN.” Books in Canada 19.1 (January-February 1990): 10-13.

  394.“The Female Body.” Michigan Quarterly Review 29.4 (Fall 1990): 490-493. Also in Solo Square III. Ed. Alberto Manguel. London: Bloomsbury, 1990. 68-71. Prose poem.

  395.“A Flying Start.” That Reminds Me … Canada’s Authors Relive Their Most Embarrassing Moments. Ed. Marta Kurc. Toronto: Stoddart, 1990. 11-13. What a flying squirrel did to Atwood on live TV.

  396.For the Birds. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990. 54. Illustrated by John Bian-chi. Juvenile.

  397.“Foreword.” Ambivalence: Studies in Canadian Literature. Ed. Om P. Juneja and Chandra Mohan. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1990. v-vi.

  398.“Foreword.” Barbed Lyres: Canadian Venomous Verse. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1990. xiii-xvi. Poems from contest conducted by This Magazine; idea for contest came from Atwood, who was one of the judges.

  399.“Frogless.” Paris Review 33.117 (Winter 1990): 67. Poem.

  400.“Giving Birth.” Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic. Ed. Alberto Manguel. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1990. 528-542. Also in We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by North American Women Since 1945. Ed. Wendy Martin. New York: Pantheon, 1990. 134-149. Reprinted from Dancing Girls and Other Stories, ©1977-1982.

  401.“Hack Wednesday.” New Yorker 66.31 (17 September 1990): 38-47. Short story.

  402.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Sound recording]. Read by Joanna David. Bath, UK: Chivers Audio Books, 1990. 8 sound cassettes.

  403.“Haunted by Their Nightmares.” Toni Morrison: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York; Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1990. 143-147. Review of Beloved originally published in the New York Times Book Review 15 September 1987: 1, 79-50.

  404.“Homelanding.” Tesseracts3.Ed. Candas Jane Dorsey and Gary Truscott. Victoria: Porcépic Books, 1990. 83-86. Speculative fiction. “First appeared in Elle (UK ed.) 1989; also appeared in Ms. Magazine, 1990.”

  405.“If You Can’t Say Something Nice, Don’t Say Anything at All.” Language in Her Eye: Views on Writing and Gender by Canadian Women Writing in English. Ed. Libby Scheier, Sarah Sheard, and Eleanor Wachtel. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. 15-25.

  406.“In Search of the Rattlesnake Plantain.” Vital Lines: Contemporary Fiction about Medicine. Ed. Jon Mukand. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. 14-23. Reprinted from Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories, ©1986-1987.

  407.“Isis in Darkness.” Granta 31 (Spring 1990): 186-206. Granta issue title: The General. Ed. Isabel Hilto. New York: Granta U.S.A., 1990. Short story.

  408.Jijo no Monogatari. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1990. Japanese translation of The Handmaid’s Tale. Title romanized.

  409.“Kat.” New Yorker 66.3 (5 March 1990): 38-44. Short story. Republished later as “Hairball.”

  410.Katteoog. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1990. Dutch translation of Cat’s Eye.

  411.Katzenauge. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1990. German translation of Cat’s Eye by Charlotte Franke.

  412.Life Before Man. London: Virago Press, 1990 ©1982.

  413.“The Loneliness of the Military Historian.” TLS 14-20 September 1990: 976. Reprinted in Harper’s 281 (December 1990): 17-18. Poem.

  414.“The Man from Mars.” The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories. Selected by Michael Ondaatje. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1990. 273-293. Except for title and copyright pages, the same as 1990 Viking (US) edition titled From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories, selected by Michael Ondaatje. Also in The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth-Century Collection. Ed. Clifton Fadiman. New York; Avenel, NJ: Wing Books, 1990 ©1986. [769]-785. Reprinted from Dancing Girls and Other Stories, ©1977.

  415.“Marsh, Hawk.” The Nation 1865-1990: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture. Ed. Katrina vanden Heuvel. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1990. 501-502. Poem; reprinted from The Nation 7 July 1973.

  416.“My Life as a Bat.” Antaeus 64-65 (Spring-Autumn 1990): 172-175. Prose poem.

  417.“Nine Beginnings.” The Writer on Her Work. Vol. 1. Ed. Janet Sternburg. New York: Norton, 1990. 150-156.

  418. “Obstacle Course.” The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen. Ed. Kay Hoy Nelson and Nancy Huse. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 250-251. Review of Olsen’s Silences. Reprinted from New York Times Book Review 30 July 1978: 1, 27.

  419.Occhio di Gatto. Milan: A. Mondadori, 1990. Italian translation of Cat’s Eye by Marco Papi.

  420.Oeil-de-chat: roman. Paris: Éditions R. Laffont, 1990. French translation of Cat’s Eye by Hélène Filion.

  421.Ojo de gato. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 1990. Spanish translation of Cat’s Eye by Jordi Mustieles.

  422.Olho de gato. São Paulo, Brasil: Marco Zero, 1990. Portuguese translation of Cat’s Eye by Maria José Silveira.

  423.Orjattaresi. Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä, 1990. Finnish translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Matti Kannosto.

  424.“The Page.” Ellipse 44 (1990): 84-87. Prose poem. Reprinted from Murder in the Dark; French translation on facing pages.

  425.“[Poems].” Margaret Atwood. [Sound recording]. Read by Margaret Atwood. New York: Academy of American Poets, [1990s] ©1978. 1 sound cassette. Recorded 11 April 1978 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

  426.“Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer.” Acquario 3 December 1990: 55-57.

  427.Promotional blurb, back dust jacket for Valerie Martin’s Mary Reilly. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

  428.“The Santa Claus Trap.” Canadian Christmas Stories in Prose and Verse. Ed. Don Bailey and Daile Unruh. Kingston, ON; Clayton, NY: Quarry Press, 1990. 11-23. Verse narrative; reprinted from The Weekend Magazine.

  429.“Scrooge McDuck vs. the Trickster.” TLS 16-22 (March 1990): 282. Essay on Native Indian writing in Canada.

  430.Selected Poems: 1966-1984. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1990. 320. “This selection of Margaret Atwood’s poetry is a substantial introduction to her work, drawing from The Circle Game, The Animals in That Country, Procedures for Underground, The Journals of Susanna Moodie (complete), Power Politics, You Are Happy, Two-Headed Poems, True Stories, and Interlunar.”

  431.La servante écarlate. Paris: J’ai Lu, 1990. French translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Sylviane Rué.

  432.“The Sin Eater.” The Daemonic Imagination: Biblical Text and Secular Story. Ed. Robert Detweiler and William G. Doty. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1990. 209-220. Reprinted from Dancing Girls and Other Stories, ©1977-1982.

  433.“A Slave to His Own Liberation.” New York Times Book Review 16 September 1990: 1, 30. Review of The General and His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Már-quez.

  434.“Small Requiem.” Canadian Forum 69 (November 1990): 31. Poem; first published in Canadian Forum in 1959.

  435.Surfacing. New York: Fawcett; London: Virago, 1990 ©1972.

  436.Surfacing, Life Before Man, The Handmaid’s Tale. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1990. “This edition was specially created in 1990 for Quality Paperback Book Club.” Appears to be photographic offsets of earlier editions.

  437.“This Is a Photograph of Me.” Acquario 3 December 1990: 54.

  438.“Three Chronicles.” This Magazine 24.3 (September 1990): 38-41; also in Ms. 1.2 (September-October 1990): 80-83. Short story.

  439.Tjenerinnens beretning. [Oslo]: Aschehoug, 1990. Norwegian translation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Mer
eta Alfsen.

  440.Ull de gat. Barcelona: Edicions de l’Eixample, 1990. Catalan translation of Cat’s Eye by Roser Berdagué i Costa.

  441.“Uncles.” Saturday Night 105.6 (July-August 1990): 52-59.

  442.Verletzungen: Roman. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1990 ©1982. German translation of Bodily Harm by Werner Waldhoff.

  443.Vynáranie. Bratislava: Smena, 1990. Slovak translation of Surfacing by Katarína Karovicová.

  444.“Weight.” Vogue 180 (August 1990): 328-331, 384.

  445.You Are Happy. New York: Harper & Row, 1990 ©1974. Based on a photocopied reproduction [Berkeley: University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1990?].

  Adaptations of Atwood’s Works

  446.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Motion Picture]. Screenplay by Harold Pinter; directed by Volker Schlondorff. United States: Cinecom Entertainment Group, 1990. 12 reels of 12 on 6 (ca. 9324 ft.).

  447.The Handmaid’s Tale. [Videorecording]. Screenplay by Harold Pinter; directed by Volker Schlondorff. New York: HBO Video, 1990. VHS tape 1 videocassette (109 min.).

  Quotations

  448.“[Quote].” Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry. By Pendakur, Manjunath. Detroi, MI: Wayne State UP, 1990. 251. Forequote for Chapter 8; reprinted from Globe and Mail 5 November 1987: A7; originally, remarks made at Parliamentary hearing on free trade.

  449.“[Quote].” Public Perspective 1.6 (September-October 1990): 26. Article reviewing Seymour Martin Lipset’s Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada quotes Atwood: “If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.”

  450.“[Quote].” Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. By Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1990. 69. Fifty-word quotation disagreeing with the notion of “the writer as an enclosed self.”

  Interviews

  451.“[Interview].” Writers on Writing: Creative Writing Course. [Videorecording]. Northbrook, IL: Roland Collection, 1990 ©1988. 6 videocasettes plus study guide. The authors on these tapes talk about how and why they began to write, where they found their inspiration, and how they see their role as a writer, in personal and public terms. These 6 videos are based on the series, “Writers talk ideas of our times,” and are copied from “Writers in conversation” programs. With a study guide containing 48 tasksheets designed to develop literary appreciation and to bridge the gap between the professional author and the student writer. Atwood appears on the 5th videocassette which covers the topics of form and genre.