Big Brother is watching her: NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sandra Newman about her novel, "Julia." It's a retelling of George Orwell's "1984"... 'Julia' is a retelling of George Orwell's 1984 through a ...

Rejoice, comrades! Almost 75 years after George Orwell’s “1984” was published in 1949, readers can return to Airstrip One with its Newspeak and Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love and Plenty. On second ...

One of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century, George Orwell’s 1984, is getting a sequel of sorts. The British writer’s estate has granted approval to Julia, a novel by Sandra Newman (The ...

George Orwell never went down the memory hole, but a layer of gray dust settled over his work after the Cold War. His two great dystopias, “Animal Farm” and “1984,” calcified into high school classics ...

The literary term “anastrophe” refers to the technique of reversing word order in a sentence for effect. (Yoda, think of.) Some retellings of celebrated stories enact a kind of anastrophe on a higher ...

JULIA: A Novel. By Sandra Newman. Mariner Books. 400 pages. $30. Rejoice, comrades! Almost 75 years after George Orwell’s “1984” was published in 1949, readers can return to Airstrip One with its ...