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Margaret Atwood's flamethrower of a stunt and the misguided moral certainty of book burning

By Charles Barbour, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University

Margaret Atwood’s new fireproof copy of The Handmaid’s Tale protests book banning – and burning. The Venn diagram of those who burn books and those who read them is typically two separate circles.

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