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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…
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.
The books you never read in high school, but should now
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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In dystopian ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ a warning for a new generation not to take rights for granted
America's democracy and Constitution have been replaced by a theocratic autocracy where women have lost their rights and many of them have become property, valued and controlled for the ability to bear children for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…
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.
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…
Extended interviews and readings with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson.
Jeffrey Brown speaks with novelist Margaret Atwood about her latest novel "The Year of the Flood" at her Toronto home.
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