Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s late husband haunts her profound new book
Old Babes in the Wood is marked by shocking flashes and jolts of horrifying imagery that point to the brutality of a darker truth.
- Carmel Bird
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The 10 books to read in March
There are new releases from Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry and Eleanor Catton, a biography of Tanya Plibersek and a 650-page whopper about our changing world.
- Jason Steger
From Sydney’s west to Hollywood’s A-list: Meet The Handmaid’s Tale’s Aussie star
Yvonne Strahovski is one of the best things about the dystopian TV hit – so good that most viewers have no idea she’s Australian, the daughter of Polish immigrants who know a thing or two about barbaric regimes.
- Amanda Hooton
Trailer: The Handmaid's Tale
Based on the book, the series portrays a dystopian future oppressive to women, and the growing resistance movement.
Ralph Heimans: royalty’s go-to painter
His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.
- Bevan Shields
US Supreme Court nominee served as a 'handmaid' in conservative Christian group
Old directories reveal that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, served as a 'handmaid' in a Christian group that believes in the supremacy of men.
- Michael Biesecker and Michelle R. Smith
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I read America's most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me.
Part lament and part celebration, the The Top 10 Most Challenged Books is a call to arms for book lovers, but it's also an electrocardiogram of our nation's troubled heart.
- Ron Charles
Thumbs up, thumbs down: The cycles of 'cancel culture'
Two separate but in many ways similar statements, signed by some of Australia's and the world's most significant cultural leaders and published last week, have intensified the debate about "cancel culture".
- Melanie Kembrey
Rowling, Atwood among 150 authors warning of 'intolerance of opposing views'
They've signed a letter, titled 'A Letter on Justice and Open Debate', denouncing the "restriction of debate" in modern culture.
- Muri Assunção
Margaret Atwood's final Australian trip with partner Graeme Gibson
Margaret Atwood and her late partner Graeme Gibson knew they did not have long together when they visited Australia earlier this year.
- Melanie Kembrey
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