Margaret Atwood
Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup
The UK’s best-known literary festival has a new CEO and promises ‘11 days of different’ as it unveils its full lineup featuring Richard Osman, Dua Lipa, Margaret Atwood and more
Sarah Shaffi
14, Mar, 2023 @12:00 PM
Margaret Atwood: ‘It would be fun to talk to Simone de Beauvoir’
The author on being banned in Virginia, communicating with dead writers and her new short story collection, the first since the death of her partner
Lisa O'Kelly
11, Mar, 2023 @6:00 PM
Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood review – tales of love and age
Dedicated to her late partner, these reflections on marriage, mortality and many-tentacled aliens show Atwood’s mastery of the short form
Sam Leith
01, Mar, 2023 @7:30 AM
‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup
Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage
Sarah Shaffi and Lucy Knight
13, Dec, 2022 @12:00 PM
The Climate Book, created by Greta Thunberg review – an angry call for action
The environmental activist curates a supergroup of climate experts in a valuable set of essays, which at times risk overwhelming the reader
Dorian Lynskey
15, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?
Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out
Lyndsey Winship
06, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival
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
Sarah Shaffi
13, Sep, 2022 @9:29 AM
Margaret Atwood to publish ‘highly personal’ collection of short stories
When it is published next year Old Babes in the Wood will mark the author’s first return to fiction since 2019’s The Testaments
Sarah Shaffi
27, Jul, 2022 @7:13 PM
Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo
David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114
Rosie Goldsmith
14, Jun, 2022 @2:51 PM
Digested week: Queen’s absence makes this republican’s heart grow fonder | Emma Brockes
With bad news all around, it was hard not to smile when the monarch, cheerful in pink, visited Chelsea flower show
Emma Brockes
27, May, 2022 @9:52 AM
Atwood responds to book bans with ‘unburnable’ edition of Handmaid’s Tale
Auction of fire-resistant edition comes ahead of an expected US supreme court ruling reversing the right to abortion
Martin Pengelly in New York
24, May, 2022 @2:52 PM
Lee Child: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale changed me – hopefully for the better’
The Jack Reacher novelist on Shakespeare’s casual knack for magnificence, finally discovering the joy of Jane Eyre, and the transformative power of Margaret Atwood
Lee Child
06, May, 2022 @9:00 AM
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