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    TV’s great new heroine is born in The Handmaid’s Tale

    by Daniel D’Addario May 06, 2017 2 minutes
    Mad woman: Moss portrays Offred, a “handmaid” forced into sexual servitude

    IT HARDLY SEEMS COINCIDENTAL THAT MARGARET ATWOOD’S 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is one of two classics to garner renewed interest after President Trump’s election. (The other, George Orwell’s 1984, is being adapted for Broadway this summer.) Handmaid’s themes—the cruelty and illiberal thinking of theocracy, the ease by which democracies slip into authoritarianism—are suddenly so relevant to so many that

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