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...Rebecca, what about you? Rebecca WatsonOK. I’m gonna go for a more....
...Links (all FT links get you past the paywall): – Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston, is out now where books are sold....
...On this week’s Life & Arts podcast, presenter Lilah Raptopoulos is joined by the FT’s acting books editor Andrew Dickson and assistant arts editor Rebecca Watson to discuss the project....
...Carol F Kessler’s Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950 is a good reference point, as is Rebecca M Marrall’s Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography...
...Atwood began work on The Handmaid’s Tale while living in West Berlin in, aptly, 1984....
...In The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood gave the long-suffering Penelope new agency in her acerbic version of her husband’s homecoming at the end of The Odyssey....
...In 1969, PH Newby accepted a cheque for £5,000 from the chair of the first Booker Prize jury, Dame Rebecca West, for his novel Something To Answer For....
...Written at a similar political moment, Alderman’s novel has been compared to Atwood’s 1985 feminist classic The Handmaid’s Tale....
...Rebecca Abrams is author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) Hag-Seed: The Tempest Retold, by Margaret Atwood, Hogarth, RRP£16.99/ RRP$25, 320 pages Illustration by Clare Mallison...
...Perhaps it was his choice this time of fantasy that did it; what Margaret Atwood refers to as “speculative fiction” might sometimes struggle for mainstream literary recognition but it still fares better...
...For the next cycle, the mentors will be Margaret Atwood (literature), Gilberto Gil (music), William Kentridge (visual arts), Walter Murch (film), Patrice Chéreau (theatre) and Lin Hwai-min (dance)....
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