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The week in dance: MaddAddam; Gigenis: the Generation of the Earth – review

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian vision provides rich inspiration for Wayne McGregor, while Akram Khan goes back to his Indian classical roots to transfixing effect

The Guardian - UK

MaddAddam review – an epic dance through Margaret Atwood’s dystopia

Wayne McGregor’s take on the novelist’s complex tale is ambitious, beautiful and, though wanting in some parts, redeemed by incredible performances

The Guardian - UK

MaddAdam at the Royal Ballet review: Margaret Atwood's nightmarish dystopia is richly beautiful

3/5 An empathetic reckoning with the end of the world leaves you clinging to dance and music

Evening Standard

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UK Writer Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker With Space Novel

British writer Samantha Harvey won the prestigious Booker Prize on Tuesday for her science fiction novel following six astronauts as they orbit Earth over 24 hours.

International Business Times

The high-profile female winners of the Booker Prize

Many female novelists have been honoured with damehood.

Evening Standard

Handmaid's Tale, 1984 book sales rise

Dystopian fare isn't the only politically inspired reading material that's flying off the shelves

Salon

Handmaid’s Tale soars 400 places to third place on bestseller charts after Trump win

Other dystopian titles have seen up to a 30,000 per cent surge in sales

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The Handmaid's Tale' Rockets Up the Amazon Best Sellers List as Author Declares 'Despair Is Not an Option' After Trump Win

After Donald Trump's 2024 presidential win, sales of dystopian and politically charged books like The Handmaid's Tale began trending on Amazon.

Latin Times

Sales surge for dystopian books after Trump election victory

The Handmaid’s Tale has risen more than 400 places on bestseller charts since Wednesday with a similar rush for copies of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

The Guardian - UK

Saturday Night Live: Kamala Harris makes surprise cameo in standout episode

The vice-president made a shock stop on the campaign trail to play herself alongside Maya Rudolph in a top-tier pre-election episode

The Guardian - US

Handmaid’s Tale author shares powerful message to women about the US election

‘Let’s leave Gilead to fiction. Everyone vote!’ one person said in response

The Independent UK

Composer Max Richter: ‘I’m a low-key raver! I love all kinds of music’

The creator of the most streamed classical album of all time on working with Margaret Atwood, enjoying Eurovision, and uniting people through music

The Guardian - UK

'Handmaids' protest ahead of abortion vote

Protesters dressed as "handmaids" have led a protest at SA's parliament, as it prepares to vote on a bill they say infringes on women's rights to healthcare.

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Bernardine Evaristo: ‘I’m grateful I was the first – but a Black woman hasn’t won the Booker prize since me’

The author of ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, who won the top literary prize in 2019, talks to Annabel Nugent about the moment in her career that made the world take notice, why she is channelling rage into energy, and her novel ‘Mr Loverman’ being adapted for the BBC

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Wayne McGregor on turning a post-apocalyptic trilogy by Margaret Atwood into a three-act ballet with Max Richter

Wayne McGregor's latest project is an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s trilogy of novels, ‘Oryx and Crake’, ‘The Year of the Flood’ and ‘MaddAddam’, marking 16 years of his partnership with composer Max Richter

The Guardian - UK

Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature

With odds of 10/1, the author of Love in the New Millennium, who was also the favourite last year, leads a pack that includes Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

Pat Barker: ‘When I first read Pride and Prejudice, I hated it’

The author on reimagining Homer, the sexiness of John Donne’s sonnets, and what she’s learned from Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

Why Am I So Single sets dating angst to music; more Hollywood stars hit the West End; and a Brummie dance trilogy reaches its finale

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The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 To Premiere In 2025

Explore the journey of The Handmaid's Tale as it approaches its final season, with the original cast returning and an expanding universe. Witness the chara...

The Guardian - UK

Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

Salon

Utah bans 13 books from all schools

The state's Board of Education is seeking to comply with a new law that ostensibly aims to ban "pornography"

The Guardian - UK

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

State has ordered 13 books by seven authors, six of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library

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19 brilliant examples of negative space in design

Designs that make a positive impact with negative space.

The Guardian - AU

Hurdy Gurdy by Jenny Ackland review – a toothless abortion tale

If novels like this one are feminist – and that’s a slippery question – then it feels like a masochistic kind of empowerment

The Guardian - UK

‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

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