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…
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The Testaments review – brace yourself for a bloody sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale ⊖⊖
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 …
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The Testaments to Big Mistakes: the seven best shows to stream this week ⊕
Chase Infiniti stars in Margaret Atwood’s gripping sequel to the Handmaid’s Tale, plus Dan Levy’s irresistibly goofy new sitcom will thrill Schitt’s Creek fans
This expansion of the Handmaid’s Tale un…
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Anthems, agency and arias: baritone Davóne Tines on rewriting his role – and the rules ⊕
The acclaimed US opera singer refuses to restrict himself or his audience. His current Barbican residency sees him range across genres. Always ask questions, always engage, he says. He talks ‘capital…
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Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present ⊕
From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?
This year marks 100 years since…
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original ⊕⊕
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The Indigenous Canadian author brilliantly captures the interdependence of humans and the natural world, in a darkly satirical critique of colonialism
Noopiming, the first of Canadian writer-musician …
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Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’ ○
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 books of 2025 ⊕⊕
New novels from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ian McEwan, plus the return of Slow Horses and Margaret Atwood looks back … Guardian critics pick the must-read titles of 2025
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The best memoirs and biographies of 2025 ⊕⊕
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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…
More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader ⊕
Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti
More than 200 leading cultural figures have come together to call for the release of Marwan …