I decided to read this for three reasons: It was on David Bowie’s book list, I recently-ish read War and Peace and had some questions, and it connected to the other topics I was thinking about in the recent weeks, namely, what it feels to be in the throes of history. In the 1990s, I never felt like I was within history. Then 9/11 happened, I grew up, and I read The Handmaid’s Tale, which has the forgotten ending section that describes the Gilead timeperiod […]