An essential volume for all Margaret Atwood fans, Moving Targets is the largest collection ever published of Atwood's entertaining, thought-provoking, and crisply intelligent non-fiction.

In these pages, Atwood writes movingly and incisively about her peers, world-renowned authors such as John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, Angela Carter, Gabriel Carcia Marquez, Mordecai Richler, Elmore Leonard, and Ursula Le Guin. Equally valuable but more rarely seen are Atwood's brilliant personal essays about the diverse influences on her writing: from the aunts who encouraged her career in letters to the influence of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four on The Handmaid's Tale. Finally, Atwood includes prescient and timely political pieces: warnings about the repercussions of the war in Iraq and meditations on the environment, the North, and the future of the human race.

Moving Targets is a landmark volume from one of the world's major writers, and a fascinating glimpse of the person behind the pen.