Local author Ocean Vuong receives 2019 MacArthur Fellowship
“The Collected Schizophrenias” insightfully addresses mental illnesses
BY CAROLINE MAO ’22
In her autobiographical essay collection, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” Esme Weijun Wang discusses her personal experiences with a variety of mental and physical illnesses, particularly schizoaffective disorder. The collection begins with her journey towards diagnosis and includes topics such as her family’s history of mental illness and their refusal to acknowledge it, her expulsion from Yale as a result of her repeated psychiatric hospitalizations and her decision not to have children.
Margaret Atwood to write sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale”
BY CAROLINE MAO ’22
In November 2018, Margaret Atwood announced that she would be releasing a sequel to her 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” in September 2019. The sequel, entitled “The Testaments,” has no connection to the Hulu television adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” It follows three female narrators from Gilead, a dystopian America, and is set 15 years after the first novel.
