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Big Brother is Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten by Aldous Huxley. The detail that George Orwell got wrong is that far from being terrified and brainwashed into submission by Big Brother, the populace would embrace the all-seeing eye as their route to fame, prosperity and freedom. Some of the populace, at any rate. We met 16 of
It might seem an impossible task, but US novelist Sandra Newman has brilliantly mirrored Orwell’s cautionary tale, through the eyes of Julia
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‘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?