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...themes is exactly what over a hundred undergraduates have been doing this past semester in English 182: “Science Fiction.” Under the guidance of English professor Stephen L. Burt ’94, students have delved into the works of H.G. Wells, Margaret Atwood, and Philip K. Dick as assiduously as many others have studied Milton and Shakespeare...
...Newspeak, “A Clockwork Orange” had Nadsat—each distorted, disorienting vocabulary a warning of possible ills. In “The Year of the Flood,” her most recent novel and the second in a series of three, Margaret Atwood similarly invents a dictionary for her post-apocalyptic world. But her words are amusing than ominous—the lexicon for a dystopian vision at once entertaining and insubstantial. Atwood’s way with words should come as no surprise. The Canadian author has dozens of works (novels, books of poetry...
...pages span the breadth of fiction, reportage, memoir, travel writing, polemic and even photography. Wood says the magazine will eventually produce themed issues, but for now, readers can expect the unexpected. Dip into recent copies and you'll find them packed with everything from poetry by Margaret Atwood to a photo-essay on the Mumbai bombings to experimental short fiction by emerging Singaporean writer O Thiam Chin...
...weeks after Atwood was killed during an SLA shootout with Los Angeles police in May 1974, Soliah used the pulpit at a Berkeley rally to issue an impassioned speech in which dubbed policemen "pigs," preached solidarity with the SLA and urged the group to "keep fighting." She joined the cause in earnest in 1975. A quarter-century later, she copped to involvement in two crimes committed that year: a bank robbery near Sacramento in which a customer, Myrna Opsahl, was fatally shot; and the planting of two pipe bombs beneath police cars. (They failed to detonate and were successfully defused...
...soldiers: I know it is not necessary to say, but keep on fighting. I'm with you and we are with you!" -Delivering a speech in Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park on June 2, 1974, two weeks after her best friend, SLA guerrilla Angela Atwood, died during a nationally televised shootout with Los Angeles police. (Minneapolis Star-Tribune, June...