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

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

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

British artist David Shrigley has said that George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is “really important” today.

Artist David Shrigley has made the national news thanks to a book project featuring bespoke papermaking and printing.

The digitisation of everything will place ordinary people at the mercy of the powers-that-be.

British artist David Shrigley has said that George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is “really important” today while discussing his decision to create 1,000 new editions of the book.New project Pulped Fiction has seen the 55-year-old launch limit...

Student Hub email digest: Racial equality; 2 Johnnies; Megan Nolan; Sandra Newman’s novel Julia; Una Mullally on Gaza; Imram; Killers of the Flower Moon and more...

My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist Sandra Newman, whose new book Julia retells George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from Julia’s point of view. We discuss the spaces Orwell’s classic left for her own novelistic imagination, what we do and don’t know about the world of Big Brother, and whether the misogyny in Orwell’s original belongs

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