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Andrew talks to Sandra Newman, author of Julia: A Novel, about Julia, Winston Smith and the totalitarianism of gender that George Orwell ignored in his iconic dystopia.

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Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The Men, The Heavens (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), and The Country of Ice Cream Star, longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, as well as several other works of fiction and nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s and Granta, among other publications. She lives in New York City.

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