Talese/Doubleday $26), Atwood, who is the daughter of a biologist, vividly imagines a late-twenty-first-century world ravaged by innovations in biological science. In her towering and intrepid new novel, “Oryx and Crake” (Nan A. Her previous novel, “The Blind Assassin,” is the best example of the kind of narrative pastiche at which she excels.
In her chronicling of contemporary sexual manners and politics, Atwood has always been interested in pilfering popular forms-comic books, gothic tales, detective novels, science fiction-in order to make them do her more literary bidding. The novelist Margaret Atwood has wandered off from us before: once, in 1986, to the mid-twenty-first century, for a feminist dystopia, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women are enslaved according to their reproductive usefulness another time, in 1996, to the nineteenth century, to make thrifty use of her graduate work at Radcliffe in the faux-Victorian novel “Alias Grace.” These were forays and raids.
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