We welcome this new collection of essays on Margaret Atwood's later novels, the first to include a substantial section on Oryx and Crake. J.Brooks Bouson has assembled an international team of major Atwood scholars who show us fascinating new ways of understanding Atwood's fiction by highlighting features which range from magic realism to environmentalism and debt, trauma narratives, and her apocalyptic imagination. The critical inventiveness of these essays matches Atwood's own irrepressibly creative storytelling.