Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood

Gilead Is Becoming a Reality

Atwood’s Gilead is coming to pass as red states ramp up abortion restrictions, leading to horror stories.

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New GOP Speaker Is a Gilead Patriarch

Mike Johnson, a Christian neo-fascist who tried to overthrow the 2020 election, has just been elected as Speaker of the House. Gilead threatens.

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In Penny’s Mysteries, Art Gets Murdered

In Louise Penny’s murder mysteries, art is an authentic spiritual channel that can be corrupted in the receiving.

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We Need Disturbing Lit If We Are to Grow

If we want literature to improve our lives, often we must read–and teach–works that unsettle.

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March Has Come in Like a Liobam

What do you have when March comes in as both a lion AND a lamb. Thanks to Margaret Atwood, we have liobams.

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Handmaid’s Tale Comes a Step Closer

We’re a step closer to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But can find strength from “A Wrinkle in Time.”

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Wanted: Poets to Fight Climate Change

To understand role poets can play in fighting climate change, go back to the Romantics and especially “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

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Atwood & Austen on Abortion in Texas

Texas’s new abortion law, which incentives citizens to snitch on their neighbors, brings to mind “Handmaid’s Tale,” “1984,” and “Northanger Abbey.”

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Post of the Year: Plagues in Literature

A survey of literature through the ages that has dealt with plagues.

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