45 - The Handmaid's Tale

We live in the end times, so it's only fitting that we talk to dytopian fiction scholar Annika (https://twitter.com/mydystopias) about Margaret Atwood's groundbreaking novel, its chilling realism, its flaws, and why some merch is just in bad taste.

Recommendations:

Priya Nair, “Get Out of Gilead

Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

It Could Happen Here (podcast)

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven