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Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage

Author of acclaimed biography Wifedom hits back at critics who say book casts Orwell in an unfairly negative light

The Guardian - UK

What book bans and fake piety are always about

Whether conservative or on the left, censorship is always about one thing: peoples’ sex lives.

Chicago Sun-Times

1984 at Hackney Town Hall review: send this immersive take on Orwell straight to Room 101

Oh brother! It's totalitarianism with a side order of Negronis

Evening Standard

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David Shrigley turns 6,000 The Da Vinci Code novels into Nineteen Eighty-Four

Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestseller

The Guardian - UK

Artist pulps 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code to turn them into George Orwell’s 1984

Shrigley insisted his latest project ‘is certainly not a piece of literary criticism’

The Independent UK

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ‘is still important’ as book store pop-up launches

The artist is launching 1,000 limited edition copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel.

The Independent UK

Hamas, Israel and "terrorism"

If Hamas is a terrorist organization — which it is, without question — then so is the Israeli government

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5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Julia by Sandra Newman and The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith.

The Independent UK

Book Review: Sandra Newman puts a feminist spin on ‘1984’ with ‘Julia'

Rejoice, comrades

The Independent UK

Julia by Sandra Newman: a vibrant retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell apologised to his close friends the writers Anthony Powell and Julian Symons for his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. He told one that it was “a good idea ruined” and the other that “I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being so ill while I was writing it.”

The Conversation

George Orwell was a very problematic man, but he was also a complete genius

George Orwell stood up for democratic socialism and against totalitarianism. He praised lucid writing and condemned euphemistic language. Many of the phrases with which we analyse politics and culture today — from the concept of Newspeak to the idea of Big Brother — come from Orwell. He is like a…

Evening Standard

The top 10 allegories in fiction, from Plato to Kafka

Authors from Jonathan Swift to NoViolet Bulawayo show how much can be done with what might sound a narrow form – and how much fun can be had with it

The Guardian - UK

Julia by Sandra Newman review – a new Nineteen Eighty-Four

This ambitious retelling from Julia’s point of view gives Winston Smith’s lover the agency she lacked

The Guardian - UK

The Voice campaign showed Labor's strategy for countering right-wing populism is in disarray

On election night, a triumphant Anthony Albanese declared Labor was committed to the Uluru statement from the Heart “in full”, thereby including establishing an Indigenous Voice.

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The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Eye to eye with a weary toad

Birchen Edge, Derbyshire: This one, the largest I’d seen for a while, had narrowly escaped my boot as it paused in the sunshine

The Guardian - UK

Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dystopian classic speak so powerfully to our current moment?

Reason

The Things We Can't Say

As the culture war permeates American life, combatants set their sights on the ways we express ourselves.

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Great Expectations to Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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The Guardian - UK

Beasts of England by Adam Biles review – Animal Farm for the post-Brexit era

This lively sequel to Orwell’s farmyard satire skewers the dysfunction of the past decade, from sleaze and xenophobia to the pandemic and fake news

The Guardian - UK

Beasts of England by Adam Biles review – timely successor to Animal Farm

Set in a petting zoo, this political fable for post-Brexit times is a stark portrait of an isolated, bankrupted community

The Guardian - US

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce is making the media ask the worst questions

The singer and actor’s divorce is nobody’s business – but the tabloid narrative that she’s a party lover while he’s a devoted father should be questioned

Salon

Dracula may have wept blood: study

From George Orwell to Vlad the Impaler, this novel form of analytical chemistry is enhancing how we view history

The Times of India

On This Day: George Orwell's classic 'Animal Farm' was published on August 17, 1945

It was on this day (August 17) in 1945 when George Orwell's classic novella 'Animal Farm' was published. And the rest, as they say, is history.

The Guardian - UK

Wifedom by Anna Funder review – Mrs Orwell comes up for air

The Stasiland author re-examines the short life of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in an effort to give her a voice

The National (Scotland)

'George Orwell claimed that all Scots were whisky-swilling imperialists'

GEORGE Orwell was born Eric Blair on 25 June 1903. Thirty years later, when his first book was published, the name on the cover was not the…

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