Margaret Atwood Audio & Video

The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death.

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time....

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.

Margaret Atwood, author of the best-selling novel The Robber Bride, has achieved international success with her breathtaking portrayals of the complex friendships between women.

For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin...

With the dry wit that has come to make her a literary icon, Margaret Atwood reads selections from her work and discusses writing in this audio download released by the Lannan Foundation.

Tony is a military historian who speaks backwards. The waifish Charis works in a store that sells crystals. Roz is a successful financier.

Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood talks about her Canadian roots and the development of her career in this streaming interview hosted by BookTV.

After 30 years of fiction writing, Atwood is expert at engineering an extreme spin on ordinary life, and pushing the everyday world to its limits. Her talk includes two readings from her latest novel, Oryx and Crake…

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood