Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Margaret Atwood on Memoir, Grudges, & Getting Older

Beyond ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Margaret Atwood on Memoir, Grudges, & Getting Older

Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous and prolific authors of the modern era. Though best known for her 1985 hit “The Handmaid’s Tale,” her dozens of works span literary genres — poetry, novels, children's books, essays, short stories — and often defy neat categorization. Now, at 86, Atwood has written her first memoir. At roughly 600 pages, it’s an intimate look at the ways her personal life inspired and shaped her writing. Kara and Atwood talk about her lifelong passion for the outdoors, how she decided to become a poet when she was just a teenager, and her reputation for having an eerie prescience about major world events. They also talk about Atwood’s fears about the Trump administration’s use of power, and why she still considers herself to be a hopeful person despite her predilection for dark stories. Questions? Comments? Email us at on@voxmedia.com or find us on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky @onwithkaraswisher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Louis Theroux Goes Inside the Manosphere. It’s Worse Than You Think.

Louis Theroux Goes Inside the Manosphere. It’s Worse Than You Think.

Louis Theroux joins Kara to discuss his new Netflix documentary, "Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere." The film explores the online world of male influencers selling fitness, wealth and self-improve...

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Sen. Tillis Unfiltered: Trump, Iran & What’s Next For the GOP

Sen. Tillis Unfiltered: Trump, Iran & What’s Next For the GOP

Since announcing his decision to retire last year, North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis has become a kind of thorn in MAGA’s side, holding up appointments and voicing criticisms about legislatio...

30 Mar 1h 2min

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Why the AI Race Is Leaving Humans Behind with Tristan Harris

Tristan Harris, a technology ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, studies how the tech industry’s platforms have become extractive and controlling. Kara first interviewed him i...

26 Mar 1h 16min

Inside the ICE Detention Boom: Soaring Abuse Claims and Little Oversight

Inside the ICE Detention Boom: Soaring Abuse Claims and Little Oversight

While the Department of Homeland Security publicly claims to be resetting its tactics around immigration arrests, it's been building out its capacity to house detained migrants by buying up almost a d...

23 Mar 1h

A Silicon Valley Satire That Feels Uncomfortably Close to Reality

A Silicon Valley Satire That Feels Uncomfortably Close to Reality

"Raising money off frothy numbers to sugarcoat the rotten apple is what built this town.” That’s according to Duncan Park, the protagonist of "The Audacity," a new dark comedy from AMC about tech CEOs...

19 Mar 55min

Sen. Mark Warner On What Trump Is Risking With War in Iran

Sen. Mark Warner On What Trump Is Risking With War in Iran

As the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a member of the Gang of Eight, Virginia Sen. Mark Warner is among the select few members of Congress who get to sit in on top intelligence ...

16 Mar 51min

Matt Belloni on WarnerMount, Disney Succession, Oscars & More

Matt Belloni on WarnerMount, Disney Succession, Oscars & More

Kara sits down with Matthew Belloni, author of the flagship Puck newsletter What I’m Hearing and host of The Town podcast, to take the entertainment industry’s temperature just a few days before the A...

12 Mar 1h 18min

Survivors Speak Out: Taking On the ‘Epstein Class’

Survivors Speak Out: Taking On the ‘Epstein Class’

It’s been more than a month since the Justice Department released the latest tranche of files related to its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein — around 3 million in total — yet the fallout shows no sig...

9 Mar 1h 13min

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