The Women Who Won WWII
..., the surreal Orwell-meets-Margaret Atwood environment of Oak Ridge as experienced by some of the women who were there: secretaries, technicians, a nurse, a statistician, a leak pipe...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novel, The Blind Assassin, won the 2000 Booker Prize. Her other books include The Robber Bride, The Handmaid’s Tale and most recently The Year of the Flood. Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson.
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The Magical Power of Birding
.... Prince Philip is perhaps the most avid, publishing Birds From Britannia in 1962 and going on to become president of the World Wildlife Fund. Margaret Atwood and her husband, Graeme...
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Jennifer Egan’s PEN Book Bag
..., when writers like Herta Müller, Paul Auster, Michael Cunningham, Etgar Keret, Margaret Atwood, and Tony Kushner descend on New York City. Last year, festival director Laszlo Jakab...
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In Defense of Men's Magazines
... female novelists including Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing. For more than a decade, the magazine was run by Hugh’s daughter, Christie Hefner.These magazines do cover women in a...
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Jailed for a Suicide Attempt
... be released on bail.The case is something out of a Margaret Atwood novel. Medical groups have unanimously railed against the state's actions as being punitive and counter to public...
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Why We Must Defend Writers
On Tuesday night, before a glittering crowd of writers from all over the world, Margaret Atwood received the American PEN Literary Service Award. Below is the text of her speech...
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Great Writers Rescue Obama
... something to push against. Give him an enemy who is not John Boehner. Maybe he needs an alien invasion. We can all be against invasions."Canadian poet and author Margaret Atwood at first...
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cheat Margaret Atwood Snubs Literary Festival
... new book, The Gulf Between Us, is a gay sheikh. And now, Canadian author and International Pen VP Margaret Atwood is bowing out in protest, and other notable authors may follow. "I...
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The Power of the Booker
... to familiar faces or heavily promoted figures. Richard Howorth, owner of Square Books, in Oxford, Mississippi, notes that “Margaret Atwood won it much too late in her career—her...
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Newsweek What You Need to Read Now: Man-Made Disasters
Oryx and Crake | by Margaret Atwood A searing portrait of our own wasteful and wanton world cunningly exaggerated and presented as a dystopia—like an update of Aldous Huxley's...
