Are we living in a dystopia?
- Written by Shauna Shames, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
State police officers during a "Reopen Virginia" rally around Capitol Square in Richmond on April 22, 2020. Getty/Ryan M. Kelly / AFPDystopian fiction is hot. Sales of George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” have skyrocketed since 2016. Young adult dystopias – for...


