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Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

The Conversation

Missing Pages: the podcast revisiting jaw-dropping literary scandals

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

The Guardian - US

The Trials review – tomorrow’s children hold us to account for climate crimes

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation

The Guardian - UK

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Authors on the Salman Rushdie attack: ‘A society cannot survive without free speech’

Writers including Margaret Atwood, Ben Okri and Ian McEwan have spoken out after the attack in New York

The Guardian - UK

‘There is hope’: expert writes guide to tackling procrastination

Psychology professor draws on 20 years of studying often crippling issue that can affect sufferers’ careers and even health

The Guardian - UK

The GOP's "Gilead Playbook"

We're now living in the aftermath of all that the Trump years unleashed. How do we escape this misogynist madness?

Salon

Margaret Atwood to publish ‘highly personal’ collection of short stories

When it is published next year Old Babes in the Wood will mark the author’s first return to fiction since 2019’s The Testaments

The Guardian - UK

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How an Unstable US Threatens Canada’s National Security

American political violence could lead to unpredictable spillover events in Canada

The Walrus

Margaret Atwood defends ‘I told you so’ mug likening post-Roe America to Handmaid’s Tale

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ imagines a future in which the US has become a fundamentalist, authoritarian, theocratic regime known as Gilead

The Independent UK

Who Controls What Books You Can Read?

Welcome to Reason's summer banned books issue.

Reason

People are comparing The Handmaid’s Tale to real life, following Roe v Wade ruling

‘What a dark, depressing moment in history this is. I feel sick,’ one person wrote on Twitter

The Independent UK

Hillary Clinton: ‘We are standing on the precipice of losing our democracy’

The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left

Financial Times

Hillary Clinton hits out at ‘self-righteous’ Alito and warns many rights are ‘at risk’ with Roe v Wade ruling

‘The level of insidious rulemaking to further oppress women almost knows no end’

The Independent UK

Hilary Clinton says democracy is at risk

Clinton weighs in on the current political climate, and what Margaret Atwood got right about the future for women

Salon

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Elizabeth Richie obituary

Other lives: Arts and theatre administrator who became an acupuncturist

The Independent UK

The Handmaid’s Tale voted top book written by a woman for men to read

The poll was part of a Women’s Prize for Fiction campaign.

The Independent UK

Fireproof copy of The Handmaid’s Tale sells at auction for £103,000

In a promotional video ahead of the sale, the Canadian author, 82, blasted the book with a flamethrower to test its fire-resistance.

The Independent UK

'Unburnable' copy of Handmaid's Tale auctioned for $130,000

A specially commissioned, unburnable edition of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been auctioned for $130,000, Sotheby’s announced Tuesday

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Fiction about abortion confronts the complicated history of gender, sexuality and women’s rights

Recent debates around Roe v. Wade in the United States have sparked new conversations about the right to abortion and what it means.

The Guardian - UK

First editions annotated by Le Carré and Mantel to be auctioned

Other writers who have added handwritten thoughts for sale in support of English PEN include Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood

The Conversation

Margaret Atwood's flamethrower of a stunt and the misguided moral certainty of book burning

If someone had told me a few weeks ago that nearly every major news website and social media account in the English-speaking world would post a video of Margaret Atwood – the 82-year-old matron saint of Canadian letters, the subject of countless doctoral dissertations and at least ten forests worth…

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Queen’s absence makes this republican’s heart grow fonder

With bad news all around, it was hard not to smile when the monarch, cheerful in pink, visited Chelsea flower show

The Guardian - US

Atwood responds to book bans with ‘unburnable’ edition of Handmaid’s Tale

Auction of fire-resistant edition comes ahead of an expected US supreme court ruling reversing the right to abortion

ABC News

The Loop: Albanese's international Quad meeting, injuries from a 12-car pile-up, and Margaret Atwood with a flamethrower

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A burn-proof edition of 'The Handmaid's Tale' goes up for auction

Organizers say proceeds from the auction will be donated to PEN, which advocates for free expression around the world.

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