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    Margaret Atwood Gets Personal

    by Seth L. Riley Mar 10, 2023 5 minutes

    You probably already know how you’re going to feel about Margaret Atwood‘s newest collection of short stories, Old Babes in the Wood. That Atwood is a legend of the literary enterprise is of no debate, and this collection is a strong continuance of the daring, prickly, and deeply humane voice that has marked her work for decades. 

     is divided into three sections, two of which draw directly from Atwood’s shared life with her partner , who died in 2019. His passing is the clear catalyst of the sections “Tig & Nell” and “Nell & Tig,” which bookend . Punctuating the saga of Tig and Nell is a symbolically torrential mid-section, which brings together a wild menagerie of stand-alone short stories communing via theme, if not shared characters or even a shared planet. Together, this trifurcated collection is

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