“It gave me nightmares,” admitted Margaret Atwood of Frozen in Time in her introduction to this epic and thrilling account of the failure 1845 Franklin Expedition, and the reason for it—considered to this day one of the greatest mysteries of Arctic exploration of all time. Hooked, I began reading this ambitious project undertaken by Owen…
Even after 5pm, life lingers on the streets in a soft hum in North York, Toronto. I’m used to roads settling into silence like the afternoon dust in our old suburban neighborhood. But here in Canada’s largest city, evenings have a liveliness of their own and I love it. People remain chatting in the Starbucks…
In this quietly unsettling psychological thriller, Margaret Atwood blurs the line between sanity and lunacy—and, above all, challenges the assumption that the two are mutually exclusive. You are challenged, starting immediately, to cast your lot with the word of one or the other: the convicted murderess, Grace Marks, or the legal articles, crime reports, and…