Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood has been called prescient — particularly when it comes to her famous 1985 dystopia "The Handmaid's Tale" and the recent rollback of reproductive rights in the United States — but the renowned Canadian author says her predictive powers failed her ahead of last week's U.S. election, which delivered Donald Trump another White House win.

Is America using Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale as a template for its own dystopia?

The parallels between The Handmaid's Tale and the reality that’s unfolding in the United States today are both stunning and stark, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

The Parliament we elect Sept. 20 will hold our climate fate in its hands, writes columnist Seth Klein.

Some of the biggest names in Canadian literature will come together tonight to see which two writers will win the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize.

Victoria-based author Esi Edugyan says her second time winning the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her latest novel "Washington Black" felt all the more meaningful amid a climate in which truth is "under siege."

The organization behind Canada's Heritage Minutes says provincial education systems need to do a better job of teaching students about the country's most historically significant women, pointing to a new poll that suggests the majority of Canadians have a lot to learn.

Margaret Atwood has taken to Twitter to defend herself after writing a controversial op−ed in which she wondered if she was a "bad feminist" for questioning the tactics of the #MeToo movement.

Sprinter Donovan Bailey says he knows that his induction into Canada's Walk of Fame will affect the way he's seen by future generations.

Ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing, literary luminaries such as Margaret Atwood and Philip Roth are calling on China to free the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

SPOILER ALERT: The wait for Season Two of this series will be an exercise in patience, but in the meantime, Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, ladies.

Sure, oil prices are down, and our dollar has sunk even lower post-Brexit, but we have a feminist prime minister who proudly claims that a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.

The publisher and editor of such Canadian literary giants as Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood, Ellen Seligman, has died.

Open letter against C-51 signed by over 200 artists, musicians, film-makers, and authors just 20 days before defining election.