The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Atwood

While season five of The Handmaid's Tale may be over, there's a sixth and final season and a spin-off series in the works next year

Novelist Naomi Alderman is a “what if” kind of writer, as in: What if women were endowed with the ability to electrocute others

“There have always been creative geniuses in the world,” Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis says

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The German author’s contribution will remain unseen, alongside contributions from authors including Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, until 2114

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has spent four seasons dragging June into the depths of hell. There’s nothing more to be learnt from her suffering, writes Amanda Whiting

Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

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)…