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David Shrigley wants your balls: ‘Just one of many stupid artworks I have made over the years’

At the British artist’s new Melbourne work, you can exchange a ratty old ball for a pristine new one. Just don’t leave an apple instead

The Guardian - AU

Freedom of thought is being threatened by states, big tech and even ourselves. Here’s what we can do to protect it

The idea of free speech sparked into life 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece – in part because it served a politician’s interests. The ability to speak freely was seen as essential for the new Athenian democracy, which the politician Cleisthenes both introduced and benefited from.

The Conversation

Booze, Brexit and bad hair: how Wetherspoons became the most divisive establishment in Britain

The British high street has for years been dominated by a chain of cheap-and-cheerful pubs boasting straightforward food, inexpensive pints and mad carpets. Oh, and political propaganda. As Spoons founder Tim Martin is granted a knighthood, Katie Rosseinsky dives into a polarising brand that we can never seem to agree…

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OPINION - Under the hornbeams review: A unique tale of two lives lived in Regent's Park

The wise hobo is a common trope in literature. In George Orwell’s classic Down and Out in Paris and London, the writer meets a street-dwelling artist named Bozo on the Embankment. As they cross the Thames, Bozo teaches him about the different constellations in the night sky, and shares what…

Evening Standard

Trump supporters are nothing but fundamentalists

The congenital braggart who embodies what Christianity has traditionally called the seven deadly sins has come to seem the totem of faith for millions of Republican evangelicals.

Chicago Sun-Times

Art installation to open on Scottish island where Orwell wrote classic novel 1984

A SCOTTISH artist is collecting 1984 copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a display on the Scottish island where it was written 75…

The National (Scotland)

The seven best books of 2023 reviewed by our experts

We have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s a feminist retelling of a classic, a twist on the murder mystery from the greatest voice in horror and a giggle-inducing ride through the Middle Ages – not mention one of the…

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The 25 best Australian books of 2023: Richard Flanagan, Alexis Wright, Robyn Davidson and others

Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

The Guardian - AU

Best dystopian novels of all time that are must-read classics

Stranger than fiction no longer applies

Evening Standard

The best memoirs and biographies of 2023

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

The Guardian - UK

Sandra Newman: Reimagining 1984 from Julia's Perspective

At the behest of George Orwell's estate, the acclaimed novelist has brilliantly recast his most famous work.

Reason

Trump, Extremism and ‘Liberal’ as an Adjective

In an era of rising authoritarianism, political theorist Michael Walzer says “liberal” must mean rejecting overreaches of both the left and right.

Capital & Main

Sunak searches the gene puddle of Tory talent … and finds David Cameron

The ‘change’ PM brings back Big Dave, the guy who started country’s decline, to finish the job off

The Guardian - UK

Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage

Author of acclaimed biography Wifedom hits back at critics who say book casts Orwell in an unfairly negative light

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What book bans and fake piety are always about

Whether conservative or on the left, censorship is always about one thing: peoples’ sex lives.

Evening Standard

1984 at Hackney Town Hall review: send this immersive take on Orwell straight to Room 101

Oh brother! It's totalitarianism with a side order of Negronis

The Guardian - UK

David Shrigley turns 6,000 The Da Vinci Code novels into Nineteen Eighty-Four

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

The Independent UK

Artist pulps 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code to turn them into George Orwell’s 1984

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

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The Independent UK

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four ‘is still important’ as book store pop-up launches

The artist is launching 1,000 limited edition copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel.

Salon

Hamas, Israel and "terrorism"

If Hamas is a terrorist organization — which it is, without question — then so is the Israeli government

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Julia by Sandra Newman and The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith.

The Independent UK

Book Review: Sandra Newman puts a feminist spin on ‘1984’ with ‘Julia'

Rejoice, comrades

The Conversation

Julia by Sandra Newman: a vibrant retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell apologised to his close friends the writers Anthony Powell and Julian Symons for his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. He told one that it was “a good idea ruined” and the other that “I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being so ill while I was writing it.”

Evening Standard

George Orwell was a very problematic man, but he was also a complete genius

George Orwell stood up for democratic socialism and against totalitarianism. He praised lucid writing and condemned euphemistic language. Many of the phrases with which we analyse politics and culture today — from the concept of Newspeak to the idea of Big Brother — come from Orwell. He is like a…

The Guardian - UK

The top 10 allegories in fiction, from Plato to Kafka

Authors from Jonathan Swift to NoViolet Bulawayo show how much can be done with what might sound a narrow form – and how much fun can be had with it

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