Margaret Atwood reads Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro – audio
Alice Munro obituary
Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death
‘I can say things other people are afraid to’: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump
April 2024
Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change
‘No one comes back’: Margaret Atwood’s anti-war poem debuts at Venice Biennale
March 2024
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Margaret Atwood, Curtis Sittenfeld and more
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some exciting new paperbacks, from an innovative Booker shortlisted novel to a study of friendship
February 2024
Book of the day
Fourteen Days co-edited by Margaret Atwood review – a pandemic tale
Dave Eggers, Celeste Ng, Atwood and others come together for a collaborative novel set during the New York lockdown that explores our need for connection
The week in classical: Siegfried; The Handmaid’s Tale; Tosca – review
Ambition and high musical standards fuel stripped-back Wagner; ENO keeps its dystopian focus; and Puccini triumphs over a less than perfect revival
The Handmaid’s Tale review – Poul Ruders’s opera shows Atwood’s novel has lost none of its relevance
While it shies away from some of the brutality of the book, the ENO’s uncluttered staging gives space to the sharply drawn characters and revels in sumptuous atonality
January 2024
Book of the day
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel review – a starry patchwork inspired by the dark days of Covid
Editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston round up 36 big literary names for a spirited Decameron-style collection of shaggy dog stories and tales of lost love
October 2023
Chinese author Can Xue favourite to win 2023 Nobel prize in literature
Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday
September 2023
Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon
This month's best paperbacks
This month’s best paperbacks: Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy and more
August 2023
‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books
Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language
July 2023
Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent
Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000 others have signed an open letter asking that permission is obtained and compensation given when a writer’s work is used by AI
June 2023
Trump election reframed TV version of The Handmaid’s Tale, says Atwood
Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election
May 2023
Audiobook of the week
Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – reflections on a world in crisis
Atwood ranges across topics from the global heating to The Handmaid’s Tale, with actors Ciarán Hinds and Ann Dowd among the narrators
March 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 visionary books about scientists: searching for an answer
Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup
