As the inspiration for the television hit The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s writing remains eerily prophetic.
Her work has often had its finger on the pulse of power. Her prescience is part imaginative projection and part attention to history and political trends.
The sixth and final season of the original Hulu show, which ends this week, has drawn from Atwood’s politics even as it departs from her Handmaid’s follow-up, The Testaments.
