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Recommended by Emma Dench, Dean of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics
I’ve been reading Margaret Atwood since the summer of 1987, when I was just about to leave England for a year to teach at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and I wanted to read some recent North American literature. I’ve read many, but not all, of her novels and nonfiction works, and her gaze and insight into human relationships is as incisive as it gets, sometimes terrifyingly so.
