Here we are in 2017: Women’s rights to control their own bodies are at risk, the environment is threatened — and “The Handmaid’s Tale” is more popular than ever.

This week Margaret Atwood stood in a forest in Norway and revealed something about her new story: It’s called “Scribbler Moon.” But that’s all she’s saying: The story won’t be read for ...

Margaret Atwood isn’t just a literary icon, she’s a cultural force. The Canadian author, whose first work was published in ...

Impatient GrIseLda By Margaret Atwood A short story from The New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project. Do you all have your comfort blankets? We tried to provide the right sizes.

From left: Margaret Atwood, 83, writer, “Old Babes in the Wood” (2023), a short story collection, and Mona Awad, 44, writer, “Rouge” (September 2023), a novel ...

When Margaret Atwood was in her twenties, an aunt shared with her a family legend about a possible seventeenth-century forebear: Mary Webster, whose neighbors, in the Puritan town of Hadley ...

Margaret Atwood Won’t Leave Gilead Just Yet The author of The Handmaid’s Tale is already looking forward to the adaptation of its sequel, The Testaments — and to releasing her first memoir.

But it is the book’s title story that, perhaps, stands out the most in this exemplary collection. “Stone Mattress” is Margaret Atwood at her wicked best.

Toronto writer Atwood’s sometimes playful, sometimes emotionally shattering stories make up a collection with a split personality ...

‘The Handmaid's Tale' novelist will receive the Icon Award on May 29 in Toronto as Hulu's popular TV adaptation drives towards its series finale.

Margaret Atwood: I always try everything. I wrote a story [for Byliner] called I’m Starved For You, and that had two results. One of them was that the reaction to it was so good that they said ...

There certainly is. In part, Penelope flies with the help of the sardonic, deadpan voice Atwood lends her, a tone - half Dorothy Parker, half Desperate Housewives - which "came quite easily".