{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Why Margaret Atwood saw this as the moment for 'The Handmaid's Tale' sequel","publication_date":"September 09, 2019","summary":"\"The Testaments\" is the greatly anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood's hit dystopian novel \"The Handmaid's Tale.\" Though it's fiction, Atwood says she doesn't \"put anything in that doesn't have a precedent in human history.\" Jeffrey Brown spoke with Atwood recently about how the current American political moment affected her decision to write the sequel, more than 30 years after \"Handmaid.\"","author_name":"By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2019\/09\/54ec175c71d8d99cadfbbc759afbce19-HandmaidsSequal-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}