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Season 11 of Banned Camp is here. This time we're reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
It's one of the most banned books in America. Pulle…
6 hours ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 11-12: The Doctor’s Office and the Ghost in the Bathwater | Banned Books Podcast
Season 11 Episode 9
The Handmaid goes to her monthly doctor's exam, and it turns into something much more dangerous than a checkup. Then, in the bath, she disappears int…
14 hours ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 9-10: Someone Lived Here Before Me | Why Books Get Banned
Season 11 Episode 8
The Handmaid discovers a message scratched into her cupboard floor by someone who came before her — four Latin words left for a stranger who might ne…
5 days, 14 hours ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 8: The Smell That Almost Broke Her | Banned Books Comedy
Season 11 Episode 7
A funeral procession carries a jar small enough to tell the age of what was inside it. A dish towel almost breaks someone who's already survived a pu…
1 week ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 6-7: Bodies on the Wall | Banned Books Podcast
Season 11 Episode 6
In Chapter 6, the Handmaids walk past a wall where six bodies hang from hooks — doctors executed for performing abortions that were legal when they d…
1 week, 5 days ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 5.2: She Doesn’t Even Know It Happened | Banned Books Comedy
Season 11 Episode 5
Japanese tourists walk through Gilead with cameras and smiles, and our protagonist can't stop staring at a woman's painted toenails. She used to dres…
2 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 5: Freedom To and Freedom From | Banned Books Podcast
Season 11 Episode 4
The handmaid walks through a neighborhood that looks like an architecture magazine came to life, except there are no children and no people. The stor…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 4: She Still Has One Power Left | Banned Books Comedy
Season 11 Episode 3
Chapter 4 takes the Handmaid outside the house for the first time — past a winking guardian washing a car, through checkpoints guarded by boys with g…
3 weeks ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 3: Everything Looks Normal From a Distance | Banned Books Comedy
Season 11 Episode 2
Chapter three of The Handmaid's Tale introduces Serena Joy — the Commander's wife — and she is not happy to see the handmaid. She has a garden, a kni…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Handmaid’s Tale Ch. 1-2: Welcome to Gilead, It’s Worse Than You Think | Banned Books Comedy
Season 11 Episode 1
Margaret Atwood opens with a gymnasium that smells like bubblegum and decades of girls who passed through it — and within three pages, you understand…
4 weeks ago