Margaret Atwood: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale is being read very differently now’

We spoke to Margaret Atwood about the world in which she wrote her dystopian classsic The Handmaid's Tale (the year was 1984, she was in West Berlin); what's next for feminism (more still needs to change) and the greatest threat to the environment (there are many, but one stands out).

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