Fiction Unbounders come together for a pile-on review of Margaret Atwood's latest, The Heart Goes Last
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Penelope and the Suitors, painting by John William Waterhouse.
Margaret Atwood takes on consumer culture, gender roles, and cannibalism in The Penelopiad and The Edible Woman
Read more"MaddAddam": Telling Stories to Survive
After the apocalypse, then what? Life ends, and life goes on in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, the finale to her post-apocalyptic trilogy.
Read moreThe Heart Goes Last and other Recent Releases by Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a prolific writer. Today she releases a new novel, earlier in the year she released a book of short stories, and she contributed another story to an anthology of "cli-fi."
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"The Year of the Flood": Hope and Forgiveness in a Ruined World
Finding hope and redemption in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood.
Read more"Oryx & Crake": Narcissism and Technology Destroy the World
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam trilogy, is speculative fiction at its finest—and it’s not for the faint of heart.
Read moreSummer Reads for the Discerning Speculative Enthusiast
Looking for a great summer read? The Unbound Writers have you covered. (Photo by EM Gonzalez.)
Read more"The Handmaid's Tale": I Think, Therefore I Have the Power to Resist
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece about a fundamentalist Christian theocracy that overthrows the U.S. government and enslaves women to be childbearing “Handmaids”, turns 30 years old this fall. The novel remains as relevant—and as haunting—today as it was when it first appeared in 1985.
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