“Airborne: a Symposium”
2023-03-07
short story
By Margaret Atwood

Synopsis

A group of elderly women try to write a proposal for a new chair at a university.

History

First publication: Old Babes in the Woods, Doubleday, March 7, 2023

Review

Kind of a snapshot of a bunch of old feminists getting together, all of them having their own agenda that sidetracks the conversation, none of them able to focus on the task at hand. Interesting characters, but otherwise I’m not sure where Atwood is going with this story.


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