Puns, Puzzles, and Easter eggs in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is justly admired as one of the great dystopian novels, but just how deep does it go? Daniel Abraham, author of The Dragon’s Path and many other novels, and co-author of Leviathan Wakes, explores the clues in Atwood’s weirdly playful text. “I don’t tell him about the claw hammer, or…