Tag: Fiction
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood read the exclusive first extract
Set more than 15 years after The Handmaids Tale, Atwoods Booker prize-shortlisted sequel revisits her dystopian republic GileadPart one: The Ardua Hall Holograph Only dead people are allowed to have statues, but I have been given one while still alive. Already I am petrified. This statue was a small token of appreciation for my many […]
Beast Fiction: None of Your Business
June 24, 1978 fell on a Saturday, a slow day in the newspaper business, and I usually love nothing better. We run a skeleton staff in the newsroom on the weekend. Once a month every reporter pulls Saturday or Sunday duty, and this was my week in the barrel. At best, you get paid to […]
Beast Fiction: None of Your Business
June 24, 1978 fell on a Saturday, a slow day in the newspaper business, and I usually love nothing better. We run a skeleton staff in the newsroom on the weekend. Once a month every reporter pulls Saturday or Sunday duty, and this was my week in the barrel. At best, you get paid to […]
Beast Fiction: None of Your Business
June 24, 1978 fell on a Saturday, a slow day in the newspaper business, and I usually love nothing better. We run a skeleton staff in the newsroom on the weekend. Once a month every reporter pulls Saturday or Sunday duty, and this was my week in the barrel. At best, you get paid to […]