Margaret Atwood is one of the world's pre-eminent writers, having won the Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Governor General's Literary Award, among many other honours. The literary giant has earned the title Queen of CanLit. Atwood has always had a strong political voice but during this election she's made headlines, railing against the cuts to culture funding in Canada. Her new book of 2008 Massey Lectures, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (House of Anansi), goes further than ever in tackling politics head-on. She examines the broad social implications of debt and our attitude towards it. As she puts it in the book, what we owe and how we pay is a feature of all human societies, and profoundly shapes our shared values and our cultures.



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