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Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity

Offline with Jon Favreau

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Handmaid's Tale

You've said that handmaid's tale was influenced in part by your experiences behind the Iron Curtain. What did you see there that shaped your thinking? "It's not just what you see in here. It's what you don't see in here," she says. The surly unpleasant East German border guards of 1984 are now smiley, happy and friendly.

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