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Handmaid’s Tale soars 400 places to third place on bestseller charts after Trump win

Other dystopian titles have seen up to a 30,000 per cent surge in sales

The Independent UK

The Handmaid's Tale' Rockets Up the Amazon Best Sellers List as Author Declares 'Despair Is Not an Option' After Trump Win

After Donald Trump's 2024 presidential win, sales of dystopian and politically charged books like The Handmaid's Tale began trending on Amazon.

Latin Times

Sales surge for dystopian books after Trump election victory

The Handmaid’s Tale has risen more than 400 places on bestseller charts since Wednesday with a similar rush for copies of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

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Saturday Night Live: Kamala Harris makes surprise cameo in standout episode

The vice-president made a shock stop on the campaign trail to play herself alongside Maya Rudolph in a top-tier pre-election episode

The Guardian - US

Handmaid’s Tale author shares powerful message to women about the US election

‘Let’s leave Gilead to fiction. Everyone vote!’ one person said in response

The Independent UK

Composer Max Richter: ‘I’m a low-key raver! I love all kinds of music’

The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time on working with Margaret Atwood, enjoying Eurovision, and uniting people through music

The Guardian - UK

'Handmaids' protest ahead of abortion vote

Protesters dressed as "handmaids" have led a protest at SA's parliament, as it prepares to vote on a bill they say infringes on women's rights to healthcare.

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Wayne McGregor on turning a post-apocalyptic trilogy by Margaret Atwood into a three-act ballet with Max Richter

Wayne McGregor's latest project is an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s trilogy of novels, ‘Oryx and Crake’, ‘The Year of the Flood’ and ‘MaddAddam’, marking 16 years of his partnership with composer Max Richter

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Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I’m grateful I was the first – but a Black woman hasn’t won the Booker prize since me’

The author of ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, who won the top literary prize in 2019, talks to Annabel Nugent about the moment in her career that made the world take notice, why she is channelling rage into energy, and her novel ‘Mr Loverman’ being adapted for the BBC

The Independent UK

Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature

With odds of 10/1, the author of Love in the New Millennium, who was also the favourite last year, leads a pack that includes Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

Pat Barker: ‘When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I hated it’

The author on reimagining Homer, the sexiness of John Donne’s sonnets, and what she’s learned from Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale

The Guardian - UK

The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 To Premiere In 2025

Explore the journey of The Handmaid's Tale as it approaches its final season, with the original cast returning and an expanding universe. Witness the chara...

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Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

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Utah bans 13 books from all schools

The state's Board of Education is seeking to comply with a new law that ostensibly aims to ban "pornography"

The Guardian - UK

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

State has ordered 13 books by seven authors, six of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library

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19 brilliant examples of negative space in design

Designs that make a positive impact with negative space.

The Guardian - AU

Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland review – a toothless abortion tale

If novels like this one are feminist – and that’s a slippery question – then it feels like a masochistic kind of empowerment

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‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

The Guardian - US

Five of the best Alice Munro short stories

The greatest examples of the late writer’s uncanny ability to capture the many complexities of life range from stories of sex to loneliness

The Guardian - UK

Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92

Acclaimed for her accounts of the darkness and desire found in everyday life, ‘the Canadian Chekhov’ has died, having suffered from dementia for more than a decade

The Guardian - UK

Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death

Leading cultural figures including Margaret Atwood sign statement in support of rapper who criticised Iranian regime

The Guardian - UK

‘I can say things other people are afraid to’: Margaret Atwood on censorship, literary feuds and Trump

At 84, The Handmaid’s Tale author is as outspoken as ever. She talks about aging, culture wars - and why “the orange guy” can’t be allowed back into the White House

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

The Guardian - UK

‘No one comes back’: Margaret Atwood’s anti-war poem debuts at Venice Biennale

Canadian author’s work, shared exclusively with the Observer, is to be shown alongside art by Goya

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