The OBR's bleak futurism prompted writer Paul Baldwin to make a few predictions of his own, with Orwell's 1984 re-imagined as ...

Authorized by the Orwell estate, “Julia,” by Sandra Newman, revisits the events of the dystopian classic, this time as seen by Winston Smith’s love interest.

‘1984’ gets a new life, and a fresh perspective, in ‘Julia’ Sandra Newman’s novel reimagines George Orwell’s classic from the point of view of Winston’s lover ...

Its protagonist is Winston Smith, a censor working in the Ministry of Truth. His job is to alter historical records to conform to whatever the ruling party now decrees.

She also describes her pause at the protagonist Winston Smith's "despicable" misogyny, but ultimately chooses to continue reading, writing: "I know the difference between a flawed character and a ...

But speaking up can have consequences. In “1984” the Thought Police came after Winston Smith. Today, the Trumpian version might do the same. I plan to travel overseas soon.

The fate of the autonomous individual, “the writer,” the literature of liberalism—he carried all of it to Jura, where he dumped it onto the head of poor Winston Smith.

Shake & Stir's excellent production of 1984, George Orwell’s powerful warning of what happens when we lose our souls to the ...

A local production of 1984 is about to debut at the Nottingham Playhouse. Does a play from the 1940s still hold relevance for ...

Comment ‘It felt detoxifying’: Retelling 1984 from a female perspective Sandra Newman, the author of Julia, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, explains why she wanted to rewrite ...

There is a riveting moment in George Orwell’s novel 1984 when Winston Smith, a citizen of the totalitarian state of Oceania, opens a poorly bound book with fraying pages. Reading this work, The ...

Picture shows Peter Cushing as Winston Smith and Yvonne Mitchell as Julia. George Orwell’s novel 1984 was brought to television on 12 December 1954, written by Nigel Kneale and directed by ...