That’s exactly what Sandra Newman does in her subversive new novel, “Julia.” With the approval of the Orwell estate, it’s a retelling of “1984” from the perspective of Winston Smith ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The new novel "Julia" is doubleplusgood, as you might say in Newspeak, the language developed more than seven decades ago by George Orwell for his classic novel "1984." American ...

“Julia” forms part of a long tradition of fictional retellings that complicate the perspective of an original work’s protagonist by telling the story through the eyes of a marginalized characte ...

JULIA, by Sandra Newman At the outset of “Julia” — Sandra Newman’s retelling of George Orwell’s classic “1984,” this time as seen by Winston Smith’s love interest, Julia — we ...

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Remember high school English class reading assignments? Sometimes those dense classics were even enough to make the booklovers in the classroom groan. But every now and then, an assigned reading ...