I& #39;m gonna say a thing that makes me sound more erudite than I really am, then I& #39;m gonna go to bed:
Margaret Atwood wrote "The Handmaid& #39;s Tale" in the 80s—it was published in 1985—as a critique of what she saw happening in the United States at that very time. (1 of 4)
Margaret Atwood wrote "The Handmaid& #39;s Tale" in the 80s—it was published in 1985—as a critique of what she saw happening in the United States at that very time. (1 of 4)
She was not psychic. The book was a flat-out critique of the politics of the 1980s. How do I know? I was alive and sentient, and I read the book. What we& #39;re facing now didn& #39;t happen overnight. Vast swaths of the U.S. have always been "Gilead." (2 of 4)