... Duke University Press 2011 Reviews EDITORIAL NOTE On Margaret Atwood’s Payback The five pieces following are less reviews of, than engagements with, Margaret Atwood’s book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side...

...Bethany Moreton This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback centers on the observation that the book does not dwell on the unnatural face of interest and finance. In this era of financialization, debt has been thoroughly uncoupled from the concept of payback. The least valuable debt is the one...

...William M. Chace Some writers are drawn, almost as if hexed, to pronounce on matters of state, politics, and, occasionally, economic policy. Margaret Atwood is one such writer. Her book Payback suffers from its aspiration to create an idealistic and implausible world to take the place of the one we...

...Philip Goodchild This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback shows how the book's accomplishment is to provide a Jungian analysis of the “shadow” of wealth: the primitive meanings attached to debt deriving from ancient cultural configurations of a proper balance in the order of things. Debt...

... Village Chris Briggs Margaret Atwood’s Payback is a very welcome invitation to the reader to reflect on debt in its broadest sense and on the ubiquity of what the author calls “credi- tor/debtor twinship” in history, society, religion, and literature. Many aspects of the book have resonance...