Margaret Atwood’s Powerful Antidote to Civilizational Collapse

Elizabeth Sulis Kim / Los Angeles Review of Books Nov 1, 2019 In the sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the award-winning author provides nuanced narrative to help fend off the chaos that’s consuming us. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Handmaid’s Tale

By Monica Hesse 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. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A Harrowing Warning From a Fictional Future to a Tense Present

Haley Winters / Truthdig Apr 27, 2017 Ladies, hold onto your bonnets—Margaret Atwood's dystopian horror classic is done justice in Hulu's brutally vivid and uncomfortably relevant 10-part series. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Activists Dress in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Robes to Protest Texas Abortion Legislation

Emma Niles / Truthdig Mar 22, 2017 Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel inspires a group of women to wear the book's signature red robes to a Texas Senate meeting. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Hag-Seed

By Ron Charles 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." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Cli-Fi Is All the Rage

By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network Dec 26, 2015 Stuck for some new-year reading material? How about a thriller on a world in climate-driven turmoil? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

MaddAddam

Michael Dirda / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

How to Write Fiction, by Actual Fiction Writers

Staff / Truthdig Mar 2, 2010 Hey, aspiring fiction writers: Watch your adverbs closely and lay off the exclamation points! Those are just two how-to tips (or maybe how-not-to tips) from crime writer Elmore Leonard's "10 Rules of Writing," which, as the title suggests, offers handy guidelines for would-be authors. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )