These books take Homer’s 'Odyssey' as a springboard to expand on the myths, offering additional perspectives, especially from female characters.
Tag: margaret atwood
On Romance Novels and Coming to Terms with My Broken Feminism
Afters years of looking down at romance novels, a reading of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' made me sit up and realise my internalised misogyny.
The Aunt’s Tale in Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’
Aunt Lydia is an extremely powerful cog in Gilead’s machinery, privy to the dirty secrets of members in every tier of the regime’s food chain.