Read This: The Handmaid’s Tale author on how Trump is too unbelievable for fiction
Margaret Atwood—author of The Handmaid’s Tale and dozens of other novels, short story collections, children’s books, works of poetry and criticism, and the new comic book series Angel Catbird—is the subject of a lengthy and insightful profile in The New Yorker. She speaks briefly on Donald Trump’s presidency, telling New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead, “If the election of Donald Trump were fiction… it would be too implausible to satisfy readers.” It’s an insightful viewpoint from the writer of speculative fiction (her preferred term over “science fiction”), who’s penned arguably the most influential speculation through the lens of patriarchy. Atwood goes on to say this: