The Handmaid's Tale

I think I last read this book sometime around high school. The afterword section of it - especially the part with the “underground frailway” had left me with a negative feeling about the world after Gilead. it bothered me for years.

Now that I've re-read this, though, I seem to recognize Professor Pieixoto as a particular type of academic, that of an academic asshole. These may well always be with us.