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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
MagazineKristen Roupenian
The Uneasy Uplift of The Testaments
Why Margaret Atwood’s sequel lacks the power of "The Handmaid’s Tale"
November 3, 2017
MagazineRachel 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
MagazineAlex Shephard
Ultimate Salesman
How Trump is helping to revive the publishing industry.
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 16, 2005
Rochelle Gurstein
On the Triumph of the Pornographic Imagination

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