Volume 53, Number 19 · November 30, 2006

Corrections

By The Editors

In response to Margaret Atwood's Tale (November 2, 2006)

In Joyce Carol Oates's review of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale [NYR, November 2], the character Offred is not named after her father but after her Commander, Fred; and the ceremonies in which handmaids dismember men are called Particicutions.


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