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A highly rated anime show compared to George Orwell's 1984 is returning to screens, lands new trailer and release date

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture is releasing a lot sooner than you’d think

Total Film

Decoding Project 2025's Evangelicalese

Evangelicalese allows Trump’s MAGA supporters to hide their extreme positions in plain sight

Salon

6 mind-bending sci-fi novels every prog metal fan should read

As epic new sci-fi show 3 Body Problem hits Netflix, Tesseract bassist/avid sci-fi fan Amos Williams picks the novels that encapsulate the genre at its best

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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‘They didn’t understand us at all’: why the miners’ strike still captivates Britain, 40 years on

Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?

The Guardian - UK

Wifedom by Anna Funder audiobook review – the first Mrs Orwell

The Australian writer explores the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s treatment of women in an empathetic biography of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy

The Guardian - UK

Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux review – how Eric Blair became George Orwell

The evils of empire are brought to life in this fascinating imagining of Orwell’s days as a colonial policeman, but the perspective of Burmese people is sidelined

The Guardian - UK

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Ram after Rukun – the story of a friendship

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful, wrote George Orwell in his essay on Salvador Dali. Perhaps memoirs need merely to reveal the unsuspected.

The Hindu

Animal Farm review – Orwell’s unsettling allegory still resonates in the age of Trump, Johnson and Sunak

Iqbal Khan’s production lays bare the uncomfortable parallels between a mid-20th century Soviet Union and today’s marauding politicians

The Guardian - UK

Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux review – George Orwell’s Burmese days vibrantly brought to life

The US writer’s fictionalised portrait of the young Eric Blair’s time with the imperial police in Burma is a keenly felt and vividly researched account of colonial bigotry and power

The Guardian - UK

No salt please, we’re British: how to make the perfect cup of tea

An American chemist’s recipe advising salt and hot milk does not sound like a nice cuppa to me

The Guardian - UK

Forty years ago Apple debuted a computer that changed our world, for good or ill

In many ways, the long 21st century began when Apple launched the Macintosh with its ‘1984’ Super Bowl ad

The Guardian - US

David Shrigley wants your balls: ‘Just one of many stupid artworks I have made over the years’

At the British artist’s new Melbourne work, you can exchange a ratty old ball for a pristine new one. Just don’t leave an apple instead

The Guardian - AU

Freedom of thought is being threatened by states, big tech and even ourselves. Here’s what we can do to protect it

The idea of free speech sparked into life 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece – in part because it served a politician’s interests. The ability to speak freely was seen as essential for the new Athenian democracy, which the politician Cleisthenes both introduced and benefited from.

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The Independent UK

Booze, Brexit and bad hair: how Wetherspoons became the most divisive establishment in Britain

The British high street has for years been dominated by a chain of cheap-and-cheerful pubs boasting straightforward food, inexpensive pints and mad carpets. Oh, and political propaganda. As Spoons founder Tim Martin is granted a knighthood, Katie Rosseinsky dives into a polarising brand that we can never seem to agree…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Under the hornbeams review: A unique tale of two lives lived in Regent's Park

The wise hobo is a common trope in literature. In George Orwell’s classic Down and Out in Paris and London, the writer meets a street-dwelling artist named Bozo on the Embankment. As they cross the Thames, Bozo teaches him about the different constellations in the night sky, and shares what…

Chicago Sun-Times

Trump supporters are nothing but fundamentalists

The congenital braggart who embodies what Christianity has traditionally called the seven deadly sins has come to seem the totem of faith for millions of Republican evangelicals.

The National (Scotland)

Art installation to open on Scottish island where Orwell wrote classic novel 1984

A SCOTTISH artist is collecting 1984 copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a display on the Scottish island where it was written 75…

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The seven best books of 2023 reviewed by our experts

We have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s a feminist retelling of a classic, a twist on the murder mystery from the greatest voice in horror and a giggle-inducing ride through the Middle Ages – not mention one of the…

The Guardian - AU

The 25 best Australian books of 2023: Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Robyn Davidson and others

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

Evening Standard

Best dystopian novels of all time that are must-read classics

Stranger than fiction no longer applies

The Guardian - UK

The best memoirs and biographies of 2023

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

Reason

Sandra Newman: Reimagining 1984 from Julia's Perspective

At the behest of George Orwell's estate, the acclaimed novelist has brilliantly recast his most famous work.

Capital & Main

Trump, Extremism and ‘Liberal’ as an Adjective

In an era of rising authoritarianism, political theorist Michael Walzer says “liberal” must mean rejecting overreaches of both the left and right.

The Guardian - UK

Sunak searches the gene puddle of Tory talent … and finds David Cameron

The ‘change’ PM brings back Big Dave, the guy who started country’s decline, to finish the job off

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