One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...

The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...

Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...

DETROIT -- A judge threw out charges yesterday against a University of Michigan student who wrote fantasies on the Internet about raping and killing a classmate. US District Judge Avern Cohn said Jake Baker expressed no intent of carrying out such acts. He...

Lusty Lady WOMEN'S SECRET THOUGHTS REVEAL UNCONSCIOUS, OFTEN BRUTAL, DESIRES How many women have rape fantasies?" my friend Michael Malice asks over drinks. The question comes out of thin air. "I don't know, but it's not uncommon,"I reply. "I'd think...

“If you use anything except an ashtray to put your cigarette out in, I’ll come over there and cut your fingers off, and then you’ll have to smoke with your penis,” she said to me on the phone the next day. I’m sure that’s what...

“If you use anything except an ashtray to put your cigarette out in, I’ll come over there and cut your fingers off, and then you’ll have to smoke with your penis,” she said to me on the phone the next day. I’m sure...