Margaret Atwood
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Hell is others: Sarajevo and the tragedy of intimacy
In war-torn Sarajevo, desire collides with brutality in a play that refuses resolution or easy moral comfort
One Show, TwoTakes: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ (Season 5)
Guilt and punishment are explored in a ramped-up two-episode premiere of the Margaret Atwood adaptation
Nobel Literature Prize 2020: Controversy or crowdpleaser?
Names tossed about in the speculation include Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid, Canadian poet Anne Carson, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Hungary’s Peter Nadas and…
How do we get beyond ‘business as usual’ after the pandemic?
Charles Eisenstein’s book, Sacred Economics, offers some practical alternatives to neoliberal capitalism
‘Feminist’ Deneuve apologises to sex assault victims
As an actress since she was 17, Deneuve admitted that during her career she had been "a witness to indelicate situations" between men and women.
After the flood
Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree.