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This image released by Disney shows Elisabeth Moss in a scene from "The Handmaid's Tale." (Steve Wilkie/Disney via AP)

Praise be, loyal ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ fans: Propulsive final season promises a satisfying catharsis

By Jocelyn Noveck - Associated Press

Israeli women's rights activists dressed as characters in the popular television series, "The Handmaid's Tale," protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

In Israel, TV’s dystopian ‘Handmaids’ is protest fixture

By Isaac Scharf and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

This cover image released by Doubleday shows “The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany,” an illustrated compilation of folktales, poems, fiction and nonfiction by Graeme Gibson. (Doubleday via AP)

Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019, file photo, Canadian author Margaret Atwood holds a copy of her book &quot;The Testaments,&quot; during a news conference in London. Atwood, whose sweeping body of work includes &quot;The Handmaid's Tale,&quot; depicting a nightmarish future for the United States, is this year's winner of a lifetime achievement award celebrating literature's power to foster peace, social justice and global understanding, officials of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials announced Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

Atwood, Nesbit among those honored by Center for Fiction

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American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director Laurie Anderson, left, and Canadian author Margaret Atwood pose for photographs before speaking together at an event sponsored by the MacDowell Colony, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Hillel Italie)

Margaret Atwood and Laurie Anderson talk art, age and more

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Author Margaret Atwood holds her award after she was made a Companion of Honour by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, England, Friday Oct. 25, 2019. (Aaron Chown/PA Pool via AP)

Queen Elizabeth honors Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood

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Britain's Camila The Duchess of Cornwall talks with 2019 Booker prize joint winners Margaret Atwood, centre, and Bernardine Evaristo, right, during a reception for the Booker Prize Foundation at Clarence House in London, Tuesday Oct. 15, 2019. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Evaristo says Booker win a landmark for black British women

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 file photo, Canadian author Margaret Atwood poses for a photograph during a press conference at the British Library to launch her new book 'The Testaments' in London. Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is the bookies' favorite to win the coveted fiction trophy again for &quot;The Testaments,&quot; her follow-up to dystopian saga &quot;The Handmaid's Tale.&quot; Atwood is one of six finalists for the 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize, whose winner will be announced Monday Oct. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

The Latest: Atwood, Evaristo joint winners of Booker Prize

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019 file photo, Canadian author Margaret Atwood poses for a photograph during a press conference at the British Library to launch her new book 'The Testaments' in London. Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is the bookies' favorite to win the coveted fiction trophy again for &quot;The Testaments,&quot; her follow-up to dystopian saga &quot;The Handmaid's Tale.&quot; Atwood is one of six finalists for the 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize, whose winner will be announced Monday Oct. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

It’s a tie: Atwood and Evaristo share fiction’s Booker Prize

By BY JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, author Margaret Atwood, center, appears with her editor Nan Talese, left, and husband Graeme Gibson as she is introduced for the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony in New York. Gibson, a Canadian novelist and conservationist has died. His death was announced Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019 by Doubleday, which has published both Gibson and Atwood. He was 85 and had been suffering from dementia. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Author Graeme Gibson, longtime partner of Atwood, dead at 85

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This cover image released by Nan A. Talese shows &quot;The Testaments,&quot; by Margaret Atwood. (Nan A. Talese via AP)

Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’ takes readers on wild ride

By DONNA LIQUORI - Associated Press

Canadian author Margaret Atwood speaks during a press conference at the British Library to launch her new book "The Testaments" in London, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

New Atwood novel ‘The Testaments’ revisits dystopian world

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

This Aug. 21, 2019 photo shows author Margaret Atwood posing for a portrait in Toronto, Canada. The longtime Toronto resident has written the year’s most anticipated novel, “The Testaments,” the sequel to her classic “The Handmaid’s Tale” and a Booker Prize finalist. In December, Atwood will be honored in New York by the Center for Fiction, which has given its first ever On Screen Award to her and to Hulu executives for the Emmy-winning adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Margaret Atwood writes sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

This Aug. 21, 2019 photo shows author Margaret Atwood posing for a portrait in Toronto, Canada. The longtime Toronto resident has written the year’s most anticipated novel, “The Testaments,” the sequel to her classic “The Handmaid’s Tale” and a Booker Prize finalist. In December, Atwood will be honored in New York by the Center for Fiction, which has given its first ever On Screen Award to her and to Hulu executives for the Emmy-winning adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

This combination photo shows author Margaret Atwood at 2018 Equality Now's &quot;Make Equality Reality&quot; gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Dec. 3, 2018, left, and author Salman Rushdie at the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony in New York on Nov. 15, 2017. Atwood’s “The Testaments,” her highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and Rushdie’s “Quichotte,” a modern telling of “Don Quixote,” are among six works shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. This year’s winner will be announced October 14 during a ceremony in London. (AP Photo)

Atwood, Rushdie among Booker Prize finalists

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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2018 file photo, Margaret Atwood arrives at the 16th Annual Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden in Los Angeles. Atwood is writing a sequel to her million-selling “The Handmaid’s Tale.”“The Testaments” will be published next September by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, the publisher announced Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Atwood writing ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ sequel, out in 2019

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Bruce Miller, from left, Margaret Atwood, and Elisabeth Moss accept the award for outstanding drama series for "The Handmaid's Tale" at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) ** FILE **

Margaret Atwood rips ‘rape-enabling Bad Feminist’ attacks over #MeToo scrutiny

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Offred is on the run as ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ returns in April

By LYNN ELBER - Associated Press

FILE - A Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017 file photo of Canadian author, Margaret Atwood, attending a ceremony in Frankfurt, Germany. Atwood has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, a literary award. An international jury chose Atwood in May to win the annual Franz Kafka Prize awarded by the Prague-based Franz Kafka Society. ( Arne Dedert/dpa via AP, File)

Margaret Atwood receives Franz Kafka award in Prague

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