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The Handmaid's Tale

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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 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

Arts Apr 25

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America's democracy and Constitution have been replaced by a theocratic autocracy where women have lost their rights and many of them have become property, valued and controlled for the ability to bear children for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

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Arts Apr 25

The Handmaid's Tale -- "Offred" Episode 101 -- Offred, one the few fertile women known as Handmaids in the oppressive Republic of Gilead, struggles to survive as a reproductive surrogate for a powerful Commander and his resentful wife. Offred (Elisabeth Moss), shown. (Photo by: George Kraychyk/Hulu)
How Margaret Atwood dreamed up the costumes in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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.

By Elizabeth Flock

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