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Margaret Atwood
August 7, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Republicans Officially Enact Their Most Extreme School Book Ban
A Republican trifecta in Utah has taken school book bans to their most dystopian level yet.
October 14, 2022
Eleanor Cummins
This Time Capsule of Famous Writers’ Unseen Work Will Grow in Norway for a Century. What Does It Tell Us About the Anthropocene?
Future Library’s books will be printed from trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor for the climate crisis.
December 5, 2019
Magazine
Kristen Roupenian
The Uneasy Uplift of
The Testaments
Why Margaret Atwood’s sequel lacks the power of "The Handmaid’s Tale"
October 9, 2019
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature?
The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.
September 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Amazon Is a Logistical Disaster
The failure to honor an embargo on Margaret Atwood's much-anticipated book reflects the company's growing chaos.
May 31, 2019
Rachel Syme
Relevance Ruined
The Handmaid’s Tale
In its pursuit of the zeitgeist, the Hulu show forgot about storytelling.
November 3, 2017
Magazine
Rachel Syme
Hidden Powers
Why Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace” makes subversive television.
October 3, 2017
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature?
This time we know one thing for sure: It won't be Bob Dylan.
July 20, 2017
Magazine
Alex Shephard
Ultimate Salesman
How Trump is helping to revive the publishing industry.
March 20, 2017
Michelle Dean
The Art of Paying Attention
Why we need critics to think about power and how it works.
October 2, 2015
J.W. McCormack
Margaret Atwood's Wonderfully Trashy Dystopia
'The Heart Goes Last' is a tale of marriage and surveillance
October 31, 2014
Erica Wagner
Margaret Atwood: “Ooooh! Are We Going to Talk About Dying?”
Talking to the author about feminism, aging, and rewriting Shakespeare
September 26, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Margaret Atwood: Our Most Important Prophet of Doom
May 7, 2013
Leon Neyfakh
Margaret Atwood: The Literary World's Technology Mascot
October 16, 2009
Isaac Chotiner
Weekend Reading, October 16-18
May 16, 2005
Rochelle Gurstein
On the Triumph of the Pornographic Imagination
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