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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng review – an all-too-close dystopia

A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere

The Guardian - UK

Alex Jones’ lawyer says he is a ‘mad prophet’ like The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood or George Orwell

“There have always been creative geniuses in the world,” Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis says

The Independent UK

The Handmaid’s Tale: Dystopian future in which women are entirely subjugated

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The National (Scotland)

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Judith Schalansky is ninth author to write secret work for Future Library

The German author’s contribution will remain unseen, alongside contributions from authors including Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, until 2114

The Guardian - UK

It’s time for June Osborne to start winning in The Handmaid’s Tale

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has spent four seasons dragging June into the depths of hell. There’s nothing more to be learnt from her suffering, writes Amanda Whiting

The Independent UK

Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival

Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October

The Guardian - UK

Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

The Guardian - UK

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Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

The Conversation

Missing Pages: the podcast revisiting jaw-dropping literary scandals

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

The Guardian - US

The Trials review – tomorrow’s children hold us to account for climate crimes

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation

The Guardian - UK

Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

The Guardian - UK

‘There is hope’: expert writes guide to tackling procrastination

Psychology professor draws on 20 years of studying often crippling issue that can affect sufferers’ careers and even health

The Guardian - UK

The GOP's "Gilead Playbook"

We're now living in the aftermath of all that the Trump years unleashed. How do we escape this misogynist madness?

Salon

Margaret Atwood to publish ‘highly personal’ collection of short stories

When it is published next year Old Babes in the Wood will mark the author’s first return to fiction since 2019’s The Testaments

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The Walrus

How an Unstable US Threatens Canada’s National Security

American political violence could lead to unpredictable spillover events in Canada

The Independent UK

Margaret Atwood defends ‘I told you so’ mug likening post-Roe America to Handmaid’s Tale

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ imagines a future in which the US has become a fundamentalist, authoritarian, theocratic regime known as Gilead

Reason

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue.

The Independent UK

People are comparing The Handmaid’s Tale to real life, following Roe v Wade ruling

‘What a dark, depressing moment in history this is. I feel sick,’ one person wrote on Twitter

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Financial Times

Hillary Clinton: ‘We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy’

The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left

The Independent UK

Hillary Clinton hits out at ‘self-righteous’ Alito and warns many rights are ‘at risk’ with Roe v Wade ruling

‘The level of insidious rulemaking to further oppress women almost knows no end’

Salon

Hilary Clinton says democracy is at risk

Clinton weighs in on the current political climate, and what Margaret Atwood got right about the future for women

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth Richie obituary

Other lives: Arts and theatre administrator who became an acupuncturist

The Independent UK

The Handmaid’s Tale voted top book written by a woman for men to read

The poll was part of a Women’s Prize for Fiction campaign.

The Independent UK

Fireproof copy of The Handmaid’s Tale sells at auction for £103,000

In a promotional video ahead of the sale, the Canadian author, 82, blasted the book with a flamethrower to test its fire-resistance.

The Independent UK

'Unburnable' copy of Handmaid's Tale auctioned for $130,000

A specially commissioned, unburnable edition of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been auctioned for $130,000, Sotheby’s announced Tuesday

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