‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
- Posted on November 1, 2025
- By The Guardian
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‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?