1984

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/7/2021
  

  Orwell Estate Approves Feminist Retelling of "1984"

  "Orwell’s estate said it had been “looking for some time” for an author to tell the story of Smith’s lover, and that [Sandra] Newman, who has previously been longlisted for the Women’s prize and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, 'proved to be the perfect fit'."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/12/2019
  

  What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after it was published

  by Stephen Groening

  The techniques and technologies described in the novel are very much present in today’s world.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1-26-17
  

  2017 isn’t ‘1984’ – it’s stranger than Orwell imagined

  by John Broich

  In Orwell’s Oceania, there is no freedom to speak facts except those that are official. In 2017 America, at least among many of the powerful minority who selected its president, the more official the fact, the more dubious.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  1-24-17
  

  Sales of ’1984’ surge after Conway talks ‘alternative facts’

  The iconic book, published nearly 70 years ago, is the sixth best-selling book on Amazon as of Tuesday morning.