CALGARY — Margaret Atwood has been called prescient — particularly when it comes to her famous 1985 dystopia 'The Handmaid's Tale' and the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States — but the renowned Canadian author says her predict
CALGARY — Margaret Atwood has been called prescient — particularly when it comes to her famous 1985 dystopia"The Handmaid's Tale" and the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States — but the renowned Canadian author says her predictive powers failed her ahead of last week's U.S. election, which delivered Donald Trump another White House win.
Atwood said she hesitates to make blanket statements about what drives the American people because there are starkly different histories and sensibilities in every region. "Watch what goes on inside the White House … We have several people with quite large egos backed by two billionaires who also have large egos and who don't like each other," she said.
Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 2022, undoing a half-century of federally protected abortion rights, Atwood wrote in"The Atlantic" magazine that she did not mean for Gilead, the totalitarian state in"The Handmaid's Tale," to become a reality.
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