Margaret Atwood: Covid-19 lockdown is not a dystopia
(The Guardian Books News)

The Handmaid´s Tale author says `people may be making arrangements that aren´t too pleasant, but it´s not a deliberate totalitarianism´The best arts and entertainment during self-isolationCoronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMargaret Atwood, who has created dystopias from Gilead to the collapsed civilisation of Oryx and Crake, has spoken: our locked-down world might be `an unpleasant, frightening, disagreeable place you don´t want to be`, but it is not dystopian.Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live´s Emma Barnett, Atwood said that `a dystopia, technically, is an arranged unpleasant society that you don´t want to be living in. This one was not arranged. So people may be making arrangements that aren´t too pleasant, but it´s not a deliberate totalitarianism. It´s not a deliberate arrangement.` Continue reading...