I'm not sure whether it's more impressive or horrifying that The Handmaid's Tale is exactly as relevant today as it was thirty years ago.

I'm trying to catch up on my classics this summer instead of just reading schlocky horror novels, so I picked up Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian for a start. I've already finished the Bulgakov and I absolutely loved it — it's…