The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Atwood

Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood

A boy’s search for his mother, a freedom-loving poet who opposes America’s authoritarian regime, makes for a shaky follow-up to Little Fires Everywhere

“There have always been creative geniuses in the world,” Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis says

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The German author’s contribution will remain unseen, alongside contributions from authors including Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell, until 2114

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has spent four seasons dragging June into the depths of hell. There’s nothing more to be learnt from her suffering, writes Amanda Whiting

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

Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation