Margaret Atwood has always taken a jaundiced view of human nature. Back when her mordant observations about marriage and other relations between the sexes had her marked down as a feminist, she took ...

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood’s gothic tale of biotechnological disaster, spends most of its 376 pages building up to the revelation of What Happened. Her amiable narrator, Snowman, knows What ...

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 384pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 From the very beginning of this novel, you feel that you are setting out on a journey masterminded by a sure and energetic guide. The ...

Don’t call the novel Oryx and Crake a work of sci-fi. Author Margaret Atwood prefers the term “speculative fiction”—she says the things she writes about depict a plausible version of the future.

Slaty-legged crake, Rallina eurizonoides (synonyms, Rallina euryzonoides and Rallina minahasa; protonym, Gallinula eurizonoïdes), Lafresnaye, 1845, also known as the banded crake or as the banded rail ...

The family arranged for a bird rescuer to pick up the endangered corn crake when the ship stopped in England Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...