Margaret Atwood on Loss and Storytelling

"You asked me how I was doing,"

writes Nell in a letter. “What you mean is how am I managing to cope, now that Tig has died?” “Widows,” the story in which these lines appear, is one of the last in Margaret Atwood’s new collection, Old Babes in the Wood. Of its 15 stories, about half—the first three and final... read full story