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...Personally, I’ve found myself thinking of video games reading novels like The Power (2016) by Naomi Alderman (herself a game writer), even Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam books....
...A Story as Sharp as Knife, the first volume of these translations (published in the UK in a beautiful Folio Society edition with an introduction by Margaret Atwood) is a book that quite simply changed my...
...The Dreamboat Orchestra’, Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne) The Grammy-nominated Melbourne jazz/neo soul/funk ensemble will join forces with The Dreamboat Orchestra to perform arrangements by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson...
...Atwood’s dystopian vision of the future is a gift to a composer....
...Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood (Chatto & Windus/Doubleday)Atwood’s new short-story collection — which features George Orwell, an alien and a confused snail — promises to “explore the full warp...
...As the canapés circulate, the former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers arrives, deep in conversation with the novelist and human rights campaigner Margaret Atwood....
...For fans (including me) of Margaret Atwood, it would tear a leaf from the pages of The Handmaid’s Tale....
...But studio craft and jam session flow are equally well balanced and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s orchestral strings add class....
...You might have noticed that its publishers have pulled out all the stops for the global release of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale: midnight bookshop openings, heavily embargoed...
...I should have guessed that Carmen Callil — founder of Virago Press, publisher of Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou and Angela Carter, a woman who accused Philip Roth of “going on and on and on” — would have...
...Joshua Wong, the Hong Kong activist, and joint Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood also made the short list. Who was your person on the year? Vote in our end-of-year poll....
...(FT, NYT) Dotcom déjà vu The recent woes of WeWork, Uber and Peloton are all too familiar to Robert LoCascio, the chief executive of one of the last dotcom companies to go public in 2000....
...(New Yorker) It’s not yet published but Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is already on the Booker prize-shortlist. Here is the first extract of The Testaments....
...Later in the year we will get new books from two of great storytellers, both of whom well versed in dystopian tales: Margaret Atwood and Robert Harris....
...The film version of Catch-22 was a wan, humourless slog — as Robert Gottlieb, Heller’s editor, wrote, “[Catch-22] was above all, surreal....
...Robert McCrum chose VS Naipaul’s In A Free State from the 1970s....
...Kafka and Margaret Atwood lurk in the background and the story’s enigmatic style, in which what is not said is often the most important, makes it ideal for a composer, but a tricky prospect for the librettist...
...Mr Eggers recommends Oryx & Crake, a lesser known work by Margaret Atwood, whose novel The Handmaid’s Tale has been adapted for television....
...The stories feature Mohawk writer Falen Johnson, non-fiction writer Nadim Roberts, Griffin Poetry Prize-winner Karen Solie, as well as one of Canada’s best, Margaret Atwood....
...There is a strong flavour of Kafka, or perhaps Margaret Atwood. “In our opera you never know exactly what the Invisible’s crime was,” says Howard....
...Katie Roberts-Wood completed five years’ medical training before turning to fashion design....
...Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, “City of Stars” from La La Land Production design: David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, La La Land Cinematography: Linus Sandgren, La La Land Costume design: Colleen Atwood...
...New Boy , by Tracy Chevalier, Hogarth, RRP£12.99/$25, 192 pages Photograph: H Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images...
...Anjana Ahuja Contributing writer Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, by Robert Hare (1993) Uncertainty is unsettling and certainty is alluring....
...The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35/Vintage, RRP$26 First published in 1974 but only now appearing in the UK, this slab of a book is a fine monument...
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