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environmental crises, with contributions from leading scientists and writers.Penguin Random House announced Thursday that “The Climate Book” will be published in Britain in October.It contains contributions from more than 100 academics, thinkers and campaigners, including novelists Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh, climate scientist Saleemul Huq and World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.The book aims to help readers connect the dots between threats to the climate, environment, sustainability and indigenous populations — among others — and is intended as a guide to understanding and activism.Contributors including Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai, Brazilian indigenous activist Sonia Guajajara, French economist Thomas Piketty and Canadian journalist Naomi Klein offer “compelling stories of change, action and resilience,” the publisher said, alongside Thunberg’s own stories of "learning, demonstrating, and uncovering greenwashing around the world.”“My hope is that this book might be some kind of go-to source for understanding these different, closely interconnected crises,” Thunberg said in a statement.Chloe Currens, editor at Penguin Press, said it was “a unique book, alive with moral purpose, which aims to change the climate conversation forever.”Thunberg began skipping classes once a week to protest climate change in 2018, when she was 15, sparking a series of school walkouts that grew into a global youth movement.Now 19, the Swedish activist has already published a memoir, “Our House Is On Fire” and a collection of speeches, “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference.”“The Climate Book” is published Oct. 27 in the U.K.

NEW YORK -- During the pandemic, people have made a lot of noise about nurses, cheering them on and banging pots and pans. But have we really listened to them?Rank-and-file nurses are getting a chance to talk about how they've navigated the last few harrowing years as part of a theater project that is hosting a free Zoom reading of Sophocles’ 2,500-year-old play “Antigone.”The social-justice troupe Theater of War Productions hopes the play — about a young woman who puts everything on the line to do what she believes is right — can spark a lively, post-reading online discussion by invited nurses about their profession.“I’ve been a nurse for decades, and I’ve never seen the kind of suffering of my profession as I’ve seen during COVID,” says Dr.

NEW YORK -- Author Zadie Smith is this year's winner of the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, an honor previously given to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Margaret Atwood among others.The PEN literary award is presented to “an important writer whose work has drawn a wide audience and who helps us understand the human condition in original and powerful ways.” Smith, 46, the youngest ever recipient of the literary prize, is known for novels “White Teeth” and “NW" and such essay collections as “Changing My Mind” and “Intimations.” She recently contributed the introduction to a stand-alone book edition of Morrison's short story “Recitatif.”“Zadie Smith’s impact cannot be understated," PEN America President Ayad Akhtar said in a statement Friday. “She is not just one of contemporary fiction’s most groundbreaking voices, but also amongst our most insightful critical minds.

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Atwood and Ken Steacy’s historical graphic novel War Bears will come to televison. WOW! Unlimited Media has optioned the 2019 graphic novel for an animated series adaptation.

“Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021,” by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)Canadian poet, novelist and literary critic Margaret Atwood's diverse and intense interests in subjects from feminism to climate change are on full display in her latest book, a collection of some 50 shorter pieces of her writing.“Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021” pulls together writings that range from the funny to the frightening, posing questions such as, “How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?” and “Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?”The pieces include a 2015 essay reflecting on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood's dystopian novel about women subjugated by a patriarchal and totalitarian state. The book inspired a popular TV series years later.In an essay on the book's 30th anniversary, Atwood reveals she delayed writing it, worried that it would be considered “too far-fetched."She also notes that the book inspired by the rise of the religious right in the U.S.

SAG Awards took over Santa Monica, California to honour the best in film and television over the last year. And Canada was well represented, with The Handmaid's Tale star Amanda Brugel looking absolutely breathtaking in a flowing white gown.

Lucky in love? Elisabeth Moss, Alexis Bledel and more The Handmaid’s Tale actors play fictional characters in a dystopian world in Hulu’s series inspired by Margaret Atwood‘s writing. In real life, their offscreen counterparts have managed to find love through the years.

The Handmaid’s Tale creator, executive producer and showrunner Bruce Miller has signed a big new overall development deal with ABC Signature and Hulu.

Sam Adams, a literary agent whose career began in the postwar years at Warner Bros. and ended with the deal to bring The Handmaid’s Tale to the big screen, has died, according to multiple reports. He was 94.

Graham Norton Book Club is returning to Audible, featuring a number of stars including Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes and The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood. The new series lineup will also feature bestselling authors such as Matt Haig, Walter Mosley, Lisa Taddeo, Yaa Gyasi and Val McDermid, plus special guests including Dave Grohl, Celia Imrie and Derren Brown.

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Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay is reportedly going to be reuniting with her “You Were Never Really Here” star and Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix for a newly announced project titled “Polaris,” with Phoenix’s partner, actress Rooney Mara (“The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo“) taking a role alongside him. Details on the new film are being kept under wraps, but Ramsay revealed the news herself.

“Avengers” star Mark Ruffalo, acclaimed environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki and The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood are among those joining their voices to those of British Columbia’s First Nations communities to prevent the province’s old growth forests from being cut down for lumber.

“In Gilead, self-control was the essential survival skill,” reads Bruce Miller’s script for the Season 4 finale of The Handmaid’s Tale. “June’s an expert,” adds the details, which comes from the episode, which is titled “The Wilderness” and launched on Hulu on June 15.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Vows,” the sixth episode of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 4, streaming now on Hulu.(Spoilers are also ahead for “The Testaments,” Margaret Atwood’s followup novel to “The Handmaid’s Tale.”)The moment fans of Hulu’s adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale” thought would never arrive finally did: June (Elisabeth Moss) got out of Gilead.It was a moment more than four seasons in the making when a touch of

EXCLUSIVE: We hear from Hulu that the season 4 premiere episode of its 15x Emmy winning series, The Handmaid’s Tale, ranks as the streamer’s most watched original –for either a film or TV series season debut– during the course of a week.

Even for a show as harrowing as Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the fourth season of the series, based on Margaret Atwood‘s famous dystopian novel and cautionary tale, is surprisingly bleak. Granted, a show dealing with an apocalyptically totalitarian society, known as Gilead, that subjects women, known as “Handmaids,” to child-bearing slavery and servitude, isn’t much of a joyride.

As we get closer to the season four premiere of “The Handmaid’s Tale”, we’re getting more curious as to what will happen to June.

fictional dystopia.“It did change it practically because of Covid; we were unable to move people around the way we normally do, and so we were producing the show in a different way,” he said. “But mostly this was the story we were going to tell.

The Handmaid’s Tale has landed.Season four, which premieres in the US on April 28, sees June (Elisabeth Moss) return to Gilead as a rebel leader seeking revenge on those who have hurt her and others.The trailer shows June trying to evade capture from people including Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), before declaring: “You have destroyed my life, my family, my friends, my country and my child.” Watch it below.The dystopian series is based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is doubling down on Margaret Atwood adaptations with a TV version of her book Maddaddam in the works.

One of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers.

As “The Handmaid’s Tale” returns in April for season four, its creator is reluctant to predict when the dystopian drama will be ready for its final act.

Prince Charles admitted people thought he was “completely dotty” when speaking about environmental issues back in the 1970s.

President Donald Trump‘s “Space Force” can’t catch a break when it comes to getting called out for ripping off creative entities. First the official symbol was dragged as being nearly identical to that of Starfleet Command from the 1960s sci-fi classic tv show Star Trek.

The Handmaid’s Tale may have well surpassed the Margaret Atwood novel it was based on, but it is far from over.

The Handmaid’s Tale has been renewed for season five at Hulu.The news was confirmed at the Disney Investor Day Presentation yesterday (December 10), and will follow season four which is set to air in 2021.The Handmaid’s Tale is based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, and stars Elisabeth Moss as the main character June.The series also stars Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeleine Brewer, Ann Dowd and Max Minghella.Earlier this year, Moss reflected on the possibility