3 days ago

The Guardian view on dystopias for our times: the American nightmare | Editorial ⊕

found 2026 › Apr › 10 (Fri) @ 18:36 UTC

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Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and the Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another are grim parables of today. But they are not without hope

As Margaret Atwood has said, all dystopian fiction is “re…

6 days ago

The Testaments review – brace yourself for a bloody sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale ⊖⊖

found 2026 › Apr › 08 (Wed) @ 06:45 UTC

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Don’t be fooled by the lighter tone of Margaret Atwood’s follow-on. June’s daughter is now grown up in Gilead, where daily horrors are still in full swing – and Aunt Lydia is back

I had to give up on …

4 months ago

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’ ○

found 2025 › Dec › 07 (Sun) @ 10:45 UTC

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Canadian author discusses US under Donald Trump and says setting of dystopian novel has ‘become much closer’

Margaret Atwood has said the plot of her book The Handmaid’s Tale, which depicts a story o…

The best memoirs and biographies of 2025 ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Dec › 04 (Thu) @ 14:10 UTC

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Anthony Hopkins and Kathy Burke on acting, Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon on politics, plus Margaret Atwood on a life well lived

Not all memoirists are keen to share their life stories. For Margar…

If holding a grudge is wrong, why does it feel so right? Just ask Margaret Atwood | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett ○

found 2025 › Nov › 16 (Sun) @ 10:45 UTC

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In a culture of therapy-approved ‘forgiveness’, the author’s new memoir shows how hilarious long-delayed vengeance can be

“A lot of people have died, so I can actually say these things without destroy…

5 months ago

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir ⊖⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 01 (Sat) @ 06:25 UTC

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At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?

• ‘From (finally) being given the Booker prize to the day her partne…

7 months ago

Margaret Atwood releases short story critiquing book bans in Canada ○

found 2025 › Sep › 02 (Tue) @ 17:15 UTC

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Author quipped she wrote ‘suitable’ piece after Alberta school ban included her novel The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood has released a new short story critiquing elected officials for a wide-ranging…

10 months ago

Margaret Atwood’s 10 best books – ranked! ○

found 2025 › May › 19 (Mon) @ 11:15 UTC

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Ahead of the author’s much anticipated memoir, we count down the best of her books – from climate dystopias to her world-conquering handmaids

After more than 30 years, Atwood caved to pleas to write a…

11 months ago

Margaret Atwood says she cannot remember another time ‘when words themselves have felt under such threat’ ○

found 2025 › May › 12 (Mon) @ 22:15 UTC

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The Handmaid’s Tale author spoke out as she accepted the freedom to publish prize at the British Book awards

Margaret Atwood has said she cannot remember another point in her lifetime “when words them…

12 months ago

The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances-White ○

found 2025 › Apr › 05 (Sat) @ 05:45 UTC

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Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe. Women’s rights are truly at risk

With Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nati…