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Arts May 24

Margaret Atwood puts one-off, burn-proof edition of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ up for auction

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Arts Mar 19

Margaret Atwood, Celeste Ng among contributors to pandemic novel

Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the Authors Guild Foundation.

By Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Arts Oct 14

Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo share Booker Prize

The judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press

Arts Sep 09

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Why Margaret Atwood saw this as the moment for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel

“The Testaments" is the greatly anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood’s hit dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Though it’s fiction, Atwood says she doesn't "put anything in that doesn’t have a precedent in human history.” Jeffrey Brown spoke with Atwood recently…

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

Arts Sep 09

Women dressed as handmaids promoting the Hulu original series "The Handmaid's Tale" stand along a public street during the 2017 South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Film Interactive Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas. Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters
Margaret Atwood on the dystopian novels that inspired her to write ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Margaret Atwood shared some of the other influential dystopian fiction that helped lay the groundwork for “The Handmaid’s Tale," with the author nodding to the work of George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Ursula K. Le Guin, among others.

By Joshua Barajas

Mar 30

The books you never read in high school, but should now

By Joshua Barajas

Here are 10 suggestions for those looking for never-too-late reads. Maybe you’ll be convinced to finally read “Moby-Dick,” all 200,000 words of it.

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Apr 25

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In dystopian ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ a warning for a new generation not to take rights for granted

By PBS NewsHour

America's democracy and Constitution have been replaced by a theocratic autocracy where women have lost their rights and many of them have become property, valued and controlled for the ability to bear children for wealthy families. That’s the story of…

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Apr 25

How Margaret Atwood dreamed up the costumes in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

By Elizabeth Flock

Atwood's particular shade of blood red is being brought to life through a TV adaptation of the fiction novel premiering this week on Hulu.

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Feb 06

8 books on politics to read right now, from indie bookstore Politics & Prose

By Elizabeth Flock

This week, we went to our local independent bookseller, Politics and Prose, for their thoughts on what to read right now. Here are eight books -- both old and new -- recommended by the P&P staff, who chose to focus…

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Sep 21

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Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson

By Arts Desk

Extended interviews and readings with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson.

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