margaret atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale

May 5, 2017
Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel is a recipe book for how to create a hellish society. It's also a recipe book for how to resist.
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Hag-Seed

Oct 22, 2016
Margaret Atwood's modern-day take on Shakespeare's "The Tempest" follows a Canadian theater director, driven mad over his daughter's death, who is fired and exiled from the world of theater. Using only his artistic genius and a crew of local prisoners, he devises a brilliant new production of "The Tempest."

Cli-Fi Is All the Rage

Dec 26, 2015
Stuck for some new-year reading material? How about a thriller on a world in climate-driven turmoil?

MaddAddam

Sep 21, 2013
The concluding volume in Margaret Atwood's "dystopian trilogy" -- a vision of global disaster in the not too distant future -- is a brilliant piece of social science fiction.The concluding volume in Margaret Atwood's "dystopian trilogy" is a brilliant piece of social science fiction.