Global Dystopias

Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present.

As the recent success of Margaret Atwood''s novel-turned-television hit Handmaid''s Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. “It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,” says bestselling author and volume editor Junot Diaz. “It is a useful arena in ...