Margaret Atwood is taking aim at Alberta’s controversial ban on school library books containing sexual content with a new, satirical short story after the famed author’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale was ...

Some school districts in the Canadian province of Alberta have banned Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale due to sexual content.

Five Canadian writers have made the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

One author is making her book unburnable, in a move to defy schools and communities across the country that are banning or challenging books and pulling them off shelves. Margaret Atwood, author of ...

Margaret Atwood has again taken to social media to take aim at Alberta's controversial ban on school library books containing ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 29, 2024. Click here for that audio. Margaret Atwood spins tales of loss, aliens and dead cats in freezers in her new story collection "Old Babes in ...

The Handmaid Tale' author Margaret Atwood did not mince words over a proposed book ban in Alberta that would remove over 200 ...

Book bans are becoming more prevalent in US school libraries and classrooms, making it harder (but not impossible) for students to get their hands on certain texts that might expand their worldview.

Try to ban The Handmaid’s Tale and face the literary scorn of Margaret Atwood, as Alberta’s government learned from its now paused censorship measure. In a short story published online this past ...

Author Margaret Atwood—whose 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale imagines a dystopian U.S. where women are enslaved and forced to give birth—announced a special one-off auction of a fireproof edition of ...