Margaret Atwood

Best books of 2019

The year’s best titles, according to our books editor, range from Margaret Atwood’s latest to a study of Jack the Ripper’s victims

Margaret Atwood’s urgent new tale of Gilead

In her much-anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, the renowned author takes her anti-woman dystopia to the age of Trump

How Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale became a vivid graphic novel

While creating her version of the story, Vancouver artist Renee Nault had a series of conversations with the renowned author

Margaret Atwood on the stark differences ‘back home’ before and after the Great War

Although nothing was shelled or destroyed, everything changed on the home front

Steven Galloway wins $167,000 decision against UBC over harm to his reputation

‘It was a painful, wrenching shock’: The award-winning author speaks about being shunned by colleagues and fired by the university even though accusations of sexual assault against him were not substantiated

Sarah Polley: Now is not a time for women to keep quiet

The driving force behind a small-screen adaptation of Atwood’s novel Alias Grace on the mystery of Grace Marks and Canadian TV’s diversity problem

Margaret Atwood: How technology is reviving old styles of storytelling

As Amazon’s giant audio division Audible launches in Canada, Atwood explains her involvement, and what it means for storytelling in this country

How CanLit was born

Brave publishers, great books and Canada’s newfound affluence combined to set the scene for the CanLit explosion of the late ’60s

For black women, The Handmaid’s Tale’s dystopia is real—and telling

The way people are talking about The Handmaid’s Tale—Hulu’s buzzy TV series—reveals the limits of popular feminism

Margaret Atwood on the author Gabrielle Roy, in nine parts

In an excerpt from ‘Quebec,’ Margaret Atwood considers the life and legacy of a deeply Canadian author who still resonates today

The Literary Review of Canada ranks 25 books for 25 years

The LRC ranks the best Canadian books of a quarter-century. Here’s the list.

Ranking the top Canadian books of the past 25 years

Award-winning authors and journalists dissect the most influential Canadian books of our times