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All Stories for Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale creator Bruce Miller on upcoming season, series' future: 'I feel like I could go on forever'
• 4 years agoMiller said he’s fascinated by what unfolds in Atwood’s 2019 companion novel, The Testaments, set 15 years later. Whether it’s going to be “part of our future, that’s a bigger question,” he said. Hulu acquired rights to the book with a sequel series in mind.
The Friday List: From a Toni Morrison tribute to a show about Bollywood wives, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Fp Staff • 4 years agoEvery Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
For JK Rowling & Co, woke chickens of cancel culture have come home to roost
Abhijit Majumder • 5 years agoRecently, 150 writers artists and academics wrote an open letter arguing against ideological conformity amid a debate over so-called cancel culture — where prominent people face attack for sharing controversial opinions
Reading dystopian fiction during the coronavirus pandemic: Genre's prescience helps imagine a better future
Shivani_bhasin • 5 years agoDystopian fiction issues warnings and predicts outcomes. It forces us to acknowledge that the evils of the world it depicts are systemic, that something new, something better rests upon the complete annihilation of the old world
Dystopian fiction offers lessons in fighting injustice, but genre's proliferation can encourage violent rhetoric, action
Aeon • 5 years agoResponses to dystopian fiction suggest that people might be more inclined to draw ‘political life lessons’ from a narrative about an imaginary political world than from fact-based reporting about the real world.
Elisabeth Moss to make directorial debut with fourth season of dystopian drama, The Handmaid's Tale
Fp Staff • 5 years agoElisabeth Moss was recently seen in the horror thriller, The Invisible Man.
Namita Gokhale's new book, Jaipur Journals, is a glimpse into multiple stories unfolding over five days of JLF
Aishwaryasahasrabudhe • 5 years agoIn Namita Gokhale’s Jaipur Journals, we are taken in five days through the lives of some interesting characters who are in one capacity or another part of what is often referred to as the Kumbh Mela of Literature, the Jaipur Literature Festival.
'Another author': BBC called out by Bernardine Evaristo for dismissive reference, apologises
Fp Staff • 5 years agoBernardine Evaristo called out the BBC for a news item which referred to the Booker Prize as being shared between Margaret Atwood and "another author". For her book Girl, Woman, Other, Evaristo is the first black woman to win the prestigious award. The BBC has since apologised.
From Joker to Guy Fawkes: The transformative power of masks and why protesters wear disguises to challenge those in power
• 5 years agoWhen worn by protesters, masks can encourage people to do something extraordinary, to take to the streets in order to challenge those in power, to render themselves visible and vulnerable alongside others doing the same.
The Testaments review: Margaret Atwood's sequel to Handmaid's Tale is a 101 on how patriarchy works
Rohininair • 5 years agoThe Gilead that we encounter in The Testaments is no less menacing than the one from The Handmaid's Tale, but its seams are fraying.