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The Book Club: Sandra Newman

The Book Club: Sandra Newman

Best of the Spectator · The Spectator

October 18, 202338m 24s

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<div>My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist Sandra Newman, whose new book <em>Julia</em> retells George Orwell’s <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four</em> 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 to the author or the dystopia he depicts.</div> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>