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If all the above have merely whetted your appetite, why not move into the realm of nonfiction, starting with the acclaimed classicist Mary Beard’s highly acclaimed cultural history of female figureheads, from Medusa to Merkel. When, in the ancient myth, Philomena has her tongue cut from her mouth so she may not speak of her rape, it “is not the peculiar ideology of some distant culture,” writes Beard, but an underlying plank of the system we call our own. Seen through this prism, Atwood’s fiction may not be so far from the truth.
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