Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my turn to do a little story-making . . . So I’ll spin my own thread. Announcing the 20th anniversary edition of two-times Booker Prize winner @MargaretAtwood’s acclaimed myth, The Penelopiad. Penelope . . . immortalised in legend andRead More …
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How does one of the greatest storytellers of our time write her own life? The long-awaited memoir from one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures. “Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes. Though everything written must have passed throughRead More …
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A collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. Reviews:
Join me for this once-in-a-lifetime, 8-week virtual LIVE learning experience on Disco where you’ll tackle some of humanity’s most pressing challenges, the climate crisis foremost among them. Together with participants from around the world, we’ll collectively design practical utopias. What sort of homes will we live in? What would weRead More …
A new poetry collection by Margaret Atwood, entitled DEARLY, will be published on 10 November 2020. DEARLY is Atwood’s first collection in over a decade. By turns moving, playful and wise, these poems are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodiesRead More …
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In her avidly awaited sequel, Margaret Atwood returns to Gilead, 15 years after the Handmaid called Offred recorded her indelible experiences. Readers will again enter a dystopia of eerie orderliness as women under ruthless surveillance, their social status indicated by cumbersome, color-coded uniforms, are forced into dehumanizing rituals of sexRead More …
Lauded novelist Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Johnnie Christmas collaborate on one of the most highly anticipated comic book and literary events of the year! On a dark night, young genetic engineer Strig Feleedus is accidentally mutated by his own experiment and merges with the DNA of a cat andRead More …







