Brut. asked Margaret Atwood about her fascination with “evil political behavior.”

Brut. journalist Fatima D. recently sat down with legendary Canadian author Margaret Atwood — best known for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which became a hit TV series set in a dystopian, totalitarian theocratic America. Atwood, who just turned 86 years old, has written more than 60 books across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and she’s now released “Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts.”