Margaret Atwood

October 2024

An open letter from musicians, Hollywood actors and a Nobel-prize winner call unlicensed data scraping a threat to their livelihood.

When John Marsden found out his books might be being used to train AI models, his first concern wasn’t about getting paid.

With global birth rates in free fall, Silicon Valley’s ‘pronatalists’ are aiming to halt the decline – by having as many babies as possible.

The Canadian psychologist’s appeal is that he is every one of us who couldn’t resist that pointless Facebook argument.

Female writers and subjects take centre stage in the literature worth reading this year.

Queues outside bookshops, a 1300-cinema live Q&A - book launches don't get much bigger than The Testaments.

Non-disclosure agreements and dummy copies were all part of the job for Booker Prize judges needing to read the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood rewards readers with an almost-breathless narrative of life in Gilead, one stacked with twists and turns worthy of a Gothic novel.