When my mentor died suddenly, I had no idea what to do next. I started writing and discovered that telling the story of my ...
She had to be pushed to write her new memoir, “Book of Lives.” The result reveals the experiences (and a few slights) that have shaped her work.
Atwood's 'Book of Lives' has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — ...
In her visits home, Macy recounts how a once progressive ex-boyfriend became an angry right-wing conspiracy theorist, and ...
The Canadian author of the prescient 1984 novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ looks back on a prolific career and shares life lessons ...
The Atlantic C.E.O.—and author of “The Running Ground”—discusses four books about how demanding physical pursuits can change ...
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A Post-Literate Age

Journalism and fiction are both essential to a thriving democracy.
Dag Hessen views these resilient animals as wilderness in animal form, representing all that's lost to us in a world being ...
Last month, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing on what many consider to be an unfolding mental health crisis among teens.
The publication of Atwood’s era-defining dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” (1985), about a society in which women are state property, consolidated her power as a writer and drew a line under her ...
The Wilderness” braids together the stories of four friends as the women move from their early 20’s into middle age, a personal era that Angela Flournoy calls “the ...
Meet the best sci-fi TV villains of all time, ranked from iconic characters like Doctor Who's The Master to complex antagonists like Lost's Ben Linus.