Margaret Atwood on the Decade 'Handmaid's Tale' Came to Life

A monthly newsletter of book recommendations and mischief from New York literary critic Molly Young. [Brand Logo]( What to Read Today [Margaret Atwood on the Decade The Handmaid’s Tale Came to Life Her novels speculated about lab-grown meat, environmental catastrophe, and the diminishment of reproductive autonomy. Does anything shock her anymore?]( [Elizabeth Banks Pivots to Monsters, Will Direct The Invisible Woman Based on the original film from 1940.]( By Jordan Crucchiola [The New One Buries Mike Birbiglia, and It Will Bury You, Too The comedian’s new special is a gorgeous long-form piece of storytelling. It’s also very funny.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk [The Official Baby Yoda Merch Is Here and Good It’s Not The people need better Baby Yoda shirts.]( By Jackson McHenry [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [The Two Popes Earns 7 Nods in AARP’s Movies for Grown-ups Awards Little Women? More like Grown Women.]( By Zoe Haylock [Claire Foy to Defy Space and Time to Appear in The Crown’s Fourth Season Flashback alert!]( By Devon Ivie [Bill Cosby Would Rather Serve 10 Years in Prison Than Show Remorse He made it clear in his first interview since being sentenced.]( By Amanda Arnold [Billboard Makes It a Little Harder to Sneak an Album Into a Merch Bundle But concert-ticket packages are mostly safe.]( By Justin Curto [Bill Traylor Deserves to Be Exalted Alongside Art’s Greatest Names Born into slavery, the artist’s story is a vision of American hell, but his work is transcendent and essential.]( By Jerry Saltz [After Winning The Bachelorette, Hannah Brown Wins Dancing With the Stars What reality show will she turn to next?]( By Justin Curto [Saoirse Ronan Straight Up Slapped Florence Pugh Before Their Little Women Fights She was literally asking for it.]( By Zoe Haylock [Just the Baby Yoda Parts of The Mandalorian A GIF recap of the cutest li’l baby in the galaxy.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk, Jackson McHenry and Jen Chaney [Below Deck Recap: Rhylee Returns After enduring the pirate-fetishizing guests from hell, the crew celebrates by giving us the first great fight of the season.]( By Amy Odell [The Bachelor’s New Trailer Wants You to Trust This Clumsy Pilot With a surprise appearance by … Hannah Brown?!]( By Devon Ivie [Scarlett Johansson Admits She ‘Mishandled’ Backlash About Her Transgender Role “To feel like you’re kind of tone-deaf to something is not a good feeling.”]( By Zoe Haylock [Don Johnson Loved Hurling Insults at His Knives Out Co-stars The actor talks Rian Johnson’s new whodunit, Watchmen, and why he wants to revisit Nash Bridges.]( By Jackson McHenry [An Illustrated Guide to Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian The cutest li’l baby in the galaxy.]( By Kathryn VanArendonk, Jen Chaney and Jackson McHenry [Class Warfare Is All the Rage at the Movies Inequality ire isn’t a theme unique to Knives Out — it’s an undercurrent running through a slew of this season’s movies, from Hustlers to Parasite.]( By Alison Willmore [Daisy Ridley Pledges Loyalty to Baby Yoda, Confirms Porgs Are Trash “Look, I’m not a big fan of the Porgs.”]( By Halle Kiefer [His Dark Materials Recap: Blood Debt And just like that, the Gyptian campaign gets an armored bear and an aeronaut.]( By Devon Maloney [The Wild Invention of Fefu and Her Friends and A Bright Room Called Day Fornés and Kushner, wild inventors both.]( By Helen Shaw [Jason Segel Returns With Dispatches From Elsewhere Teaser, Elsewhere Being AMC The dispatches seem to be from Richard E. Grant, but you just can’t trust dispatches these days.]( By Halle Kiefer [It’s All Downhill for Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell This Valentine’s Day The pair star in a remake of 2014’s Force Majeure, one of the least romantic movies in recent history.]( By Halle Kiefer [There Is No Resisting Little Women Greta Gerwig’s take on the Louisa May Alcott classic is a fresh, affectionate reimagining that’s impossible not to love.]( By Alison Willmore [Why Lil Rel Howery Filmed His New Special in a High School Gym It was all thanks to a suggestion by director Jerrod Carmichael.]( By Katie Mears [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read more from Vulture](     [Subscribe to New York]( [Subscribe to New York](   Subscribe for $5/month and get [unlimited digital access]( to New York Magazine, home of Vulture, the Cut, Grub Street, and Intelligencer.     [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily)   |   [privacy notice](   |   [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com New York Media LLC 75 Varick St., New York, NY 10013 Copyright © 2019, All rights reserved