The Economist asks: Margaret Atwood

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: The Economist asks: Margaret Atwood
• Website: The Economist Podcasts
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• Duration: 00:31:10
• Published: 2019-09-12 17:00

The author of “The Testaments” and “The Handmaid’s tale” debates whether her novels are speculative fiction and how women's rights have evolved since she began writing in the early 1960s. Anne McElvoy asks Margaret Atwood whether she benefitted from a “Trump bump”, if #MeToo is an invincible weapon and what makes a “bad” feminist? Also, does she admire the Queen?

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