Growing up in the fundamentalist Christian “Quiverfull” movement, Hännah Ettinger saw her own story in Atwood’s vision.
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Rolling Down the Highway with the Sum Total of Human Knowledge
Google had a plan to scan every book in the world. 25 million books later, the project lost its way.
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Considering the Wall
Hadrian’s Wall, that is. Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval past by walking its ancient paths.
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Considering the Wall
Hadrian’s Wall, that is. Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval past by walking its ancient paths.
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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Cheerful Novel of Climate Change
The sci-fi writer explains how his city-dwellers learn to survive and thrive after a climate-change catastrophe.
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The Religious Iconography of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
A vast range of political, historical, and religious influences went into Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, including one unexpected logo.
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The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800
A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
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The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800
A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.
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Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy
Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?
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The Sense of an Endling
Scientists closely monitor the last member of a species. Is there space in a creature’s DNA to consider the prospect of no tomorrow?