This collection of thirteen essays and five Weldon pieces, four previously unpublished, is a wise and witty testament to her continuing ability to entertain, fascinate, and sometimes infuriate her readers. Contributors from a variety of critical perspectives explore Weldonesque themes: self-transformation, revenge, women's relationships with women, and the convergence of ineffable cosmic forces. Essays also examine ongoing controversies about Weldon's identification as a feminist, her politics, and her moral universe. Weldon's gift for mixing the profane and the sacred define the wicked tendencies of a writer who fills her work with images of transgression, subversive heresy, and hysteria but whose writings are, in the end, "humane, compassionate, sympathetic, and merciful."