Bored
Published in The Atlantic in 1994
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Published in The Atlantic in 1994
Margaret Atwood responds to the revelation that pirated copies of her books are being used to train AI.
To those who seek to stop young people from reading The Handmaid’s Tale: Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more.
I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.
Emotions may explain why people overreact, but they don’t justify it.
A poem by Margaret Atwood, published in The Atlantic in 1980