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The prophetizing of a less humane age and the honouring of authors who might soon see their books banned, start to ramp up the closer each essay gets to the fateful date in 2016. Atwood’s hope that most of the modern world would wake up and do something to save what is left, whether it was a clever series of books, including her own greatest hits, makes it harder to see what might have been if key players listened.
— Jan 27, 2026 09:14PM
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Atwood continues to write about a few favourite hobbyhorses in this collection: the role of authors against an oppression, the decline of the environment in foreseeable human terms, and some books by preferred authors including Alice Munro (again). Sometimes her advocacy for these general topics blend together in an essay. Yet, according to not-so-distant dates, she offers a window into a kinder, more literate world.
— Sep 03, 2025 02:48PM
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Wry and sardonic about the past few decades, Atwood seems alternately to make a big deal about her Handmaid’s Tale, a breakout futurist novel and then deny that she has any foresight into humanity’s authoritarian leaning. Many of her short essays leading up to the 2008 financial crisis just follow her literary interests while readers hallucinate her cunning predictions on our current disastrous affairs.
— Jul 14, 2025 09:46AM
