Margaret Atwood Offers Her Vision of Utopia
Margaret Atwood is one of the world’s foremost writers of dystopian literature, having imagined such worst-case horrors as a theocracy that forces fertile women to bear children for the rich (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and a bioengineered virus capable of eradicating humankind (“Oryx and Crake”). But she is also a profound optimist and pragmatist. Despite real-life…