Critical Essay by Laurie Stone
The characters in Margaret Atwood's fierce new novel, Life Before Man (life after man is the implied gallows joke), can't seem to get through a day withou...
Read more
Critical Essay by Victoria Glendinning
[Life Before Man] has a subtly documentary air, like the best kind of women's journalism or the most sympathetic case notes. Events are precisely dated. ...
Read more
Critical Essay by Rosellen Brown
Life Before Man, Atwood's fourth novel, makes the same kind of potent connections [that one finds in her best poetry], and makes them not so much with a poet&#...
Read more
Critical Essay by Marilyn French
It is no surprise to discover, on the publication of "Life Before Man," that the Canadian Margaret Atwood is a writer of importance, with a deep underst...
Read more
Critical Essay by Laurie Stone
