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Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: On the Literature of Witness in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’
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Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum: On the Literature of Witness in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’

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 / 4 October 2019

Margaret Atwood's The Testaments provides a hard-earned and much-needed "happy" ending to the dystopian parallel universe that is The Handmaid's Tale, albeit at great cost and courage to one vital witness.

Puritans with Machine Guns in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
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Puritans with Machine Guns in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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 / 26 March 2018

The first season of this icily horrific series is a crash course in the possibilities of a uniquely American 'It Could Happen Here' patriarchal Christian fascism.

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Series Is Important, Which Means It Has to Do Better

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 / 16 June 2017
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Seeing Red in Hillary Jordan’s ‘When She Woke’

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 / 4 November 2012
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Welcome to the Machine: ‘Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents’

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 / 22 April 2012
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‘In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination’: Atwood Finds the Connection Between Wells & Orwell

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 / 8 December 2011
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

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 / 4 October 2009