What We Talk About When We Talk About Debt

Jennifer Baichwal adapts to screen Margaret Atwood's ideas about indebtedness

"...National Film Board to direct an adaptation of novelist Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth,..."

June 8, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Heart Goes Last

Margaret Atwood's latest tracks a luckless couple across a dystopian landscape

"...The Heart Goes Lastby Margaret Atwood Nan A. Talese, 320 pp., $26.95..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

The Year of the Flood: A Novel

Atwood's latest is a remarkable parable of a world ruined by corporate tyranny, reckless technology, casual violence, and utter disdain for the natural order

"...The Year of the Flood: A Novelby Margaret Atwood Random House, 448 pp., $26.95..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Books Review by Michael King

The Blind Assassin

"...The Blind Assassinby Margaret Atwood..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Books Review by Barry Johnson

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...Margaret Moser: "I didn't know that Louis considered me valuable..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Dave Eggers' New Novel Sharks Its Way Into Your Social Brain

'The Circle' could teach Stephen King a few tricks about horror

"...any genre are, whether they're created by Eggers or Atwood or Lethem or Mantel or Shakar or (RIP) Sturgeon..."

Oct. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

News/Print

Moving images and archbishops on death row

"...caught the Texas Book Festival and its chair, Mary Margaret Farabee, on Dr. Detine Bowers' Common Ground (Time Warner..."

April 2, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Texas Book Festival 2015: The Mighty 300

Authors for Fest 20 include Lethem, Lemony, Pitts, Diggs, Hart

"...to the heavyweights already announced – Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Books on Wheels

In Austin, bookmobiles aren't just a thing of the past; they're the literary wave of the future

"...remember the past helps us plan the future." – Margaret Atwood 5th Dimension Bookmobile..."

July 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

Sanctuary in the Past

In The Whispering Swarm, Michael Moorcock confronts ghosts – history's and his own – in a secret area of London

"...others to examine contemporary morality. Michael Chabon, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and many others are doing that...."

Jan. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Michael Berry

Was It Good for You?

The year in books

"...and social reprobate Edgar Allan Poe; recall literary fabulist Margaret Atwood headlining (as they say in the biz) the..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Texas Book Festival Announces Lineup

Heavy-hitter attendees include Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jonathan Lethem

"...many big, boldfaced names are among this year's attendees: Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Antonya Nelson, Richard..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

News/Print

People in the news

"...March (Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age), and Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake) in April – the month..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Doubt and Caution at All Times

An interview DBC Pierre and Dan Rhodes on tour, together

"...14 Booker win (he beat out the likes of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, as well as Monica Ali's..."

Oct. 31, 2003 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Murderous Maids

"...My Sister, psychological essays by theorist Jacques Lacan, and Margaret Atwood's novel Captive. In Murderous Maids, the focus is..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, December 3-9

"...(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem "Is/Not," Scorpio poet Margaret Atwood tells a lover, "You are not my doctor,..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 7-13

"...SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As Scorpio author Margaret Atwood reminds us, "Water is not a solid wall;..."

May 7, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Five Post-Apocalyptic Novels for Your Plaguetime Pleasure

Because these ain’t the endtimes yet: Not. Quite. Yet.

"...4) ORYX AND CRAKE BY MARGARET ATWOOD This blockbuster novel, eclipsed in Atwood-popularity probably only..."

April 13, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Activists Nod to The Handmaid's Tale to Protest Anti-Abortion Bills

Pro-choice protest at Capitol channels dystopian fiction

"...The women were dressed to represent characters from Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale, as part of a..."

May 23, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Bedside Manner: Sharing Shelf Space

My parents' Kindle library and me

"...I’ve read recently come from this shared library, including Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and David Nicholls’ A..."

June 22, 2016 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, September 1-7

"...SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Addressing a lover, Scorpio poet Margaret Atwood says, "I would like to walk with you..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 19-25

"...LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In her story "Homelanding," Margaret Atwood writes, "Take me to your trees. Take me..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Qmmunity: We're Here, We're Queer, We're So Gonna Vote

GOTV with Pride at the Polls

"...BookWoman BookGroup Margaret Atwood's The Testaments. Thu., Oct. 22, 7-8:30pm. Online. www.fb.com/bookwomanaustin...."

Oct. 16, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, July 17-23

"...a natural propensity to study and understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as "echoes and emptiness and shadow." I..."

July 17, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

"Heidi Pitre: A Permanent Record" at Elisabet Ney Museum

The artist's finely drawn illustrations on used library cards link viewers to books and libraries in ways both nostalgic and intimate

"...Men or the dozen who raced to check out Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale over five months in 1986...."

May 31, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Qmmunity: The Harsh Reality of Lawmakers’ Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

Plus Dining Out for Life, Violent Fems, and more events to do good, feel good

"...challenge to be more hateful – more like a Margaret Atwood novel (or TV adaption). In the last few..."

May 24, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Kendra Scott Walks Back Support for Local Crisis Pregnancy Center

Jeweler regrets hosting fundraiser for Pflugerville CPC

"...activists that don red robes in the spirit of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic, have been on a steady letter-..."

July 30, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

Courtney Barnett Previews New LP

Mohawk hosts Margaret Atwood-quoting barrage

"...let off major steam in “Nameless, Faceless,” an upbeat, Margaret Atwood-quoting barrage on violence against women. Fiery frustration channeled..."

May 15, 2018 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Austin's Day of Resistance

Where to commemorate the first anniversary of the Women’s March

"...and violence against women by dressing as handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s now-infamous tale – and the Texas Reproductive Rights..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Events Post by Sarah Marloff

What’cha Watchin’?

Gay Place/Assistant News Editor Sarah Marloff on the teen dramas she adores

"...approximately 917 reasons to watch the "TV" adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, clearly I'm here to focus..."

Aug. 25, 2017 Screens Column

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