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Jun 26, 2024 | 
zeit.de | Anna Funder |Olivier Guez
Für das, was außerhalb ihrer Grenzen passiert, interessieren sich die Franzosen kaum. Noch weniger interessiert sie, was jenseits des Rheins los ist. Nur wenige von ihnen wagen sich zum Vergnügen über die Grenze. Die Deutschkenntnisse von Schülern: fast verschwunden. Ostdeutschland ... Terra incognita für die überwältigende Mehrheit der Franzosen, fürchte ich. Sie dürften ein graues Land vor Augen haben, kohleverpestet, so wie damals der Ostblock halt.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
islingtontribune.co.uk | Peter Gruner |Anna Funder
Eileen O’Shaughnessy and George Orwell. [The Orwell Society]HE may be down, but he’s definitely not out of mind. A new book has been accused of damaging the marital reputation of one of Britain’s greatest writers, former Hampstead resident George Orwell.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
grattan.edu.au | Anna Funder |Ellen Van Neerven |Mark Considine |Micheline Lee
Each year Grattan Institute selects its best books of the past 12 months – recommended reading for the Prime Minister, and indeed all Australians, over the summer holidays.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Anna Funder |André Dao
That special place: Writers on what takes them back to where they loveWe're sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We're working to restore it. Please try again later. Dismiss Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer Series Memories are made of many things; a song that summons a new-year romance, the book that captures a youthful trip, or the music that screams of a city in flux.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
smh.com.au | Anna Funder
Save Recently, a dear friend spoke at her husband's 60th birthday party. "Marriage is a crap shoot," she said, and then went on to celebrate her spouse in a way that was all the more powerful and loving for being so clear-eyed about the chancy nature of their happiness.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Anna Funder
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Recently, a dear friend spoke at her husband’s 60th birthday party. “Marriage is a crap shoot,” she said, and then went on to celebrate her spouse in a way that was all the more powerful and loving for being so clear-eyed about the chancy nature of their happiness.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
fq.co.nz | Louise Dunn |Anne Enright |Sophie Godwin |Anna Funder
The Wren, The WrenBy Anne EnrightDescribed as contemporary meditation on love in all its forms, The Wren, The Wren unpacks a generational saga between a mother and daughter, tracing what we inherit — genetics, trauma, wonder — and what we leave behind. As daughter Nell ventures out to discover the world, she learns how hard her family history is to escape, while her absence leaves her mum Carmel to face a lifetime of turmoil.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
quadrant.org.au | Anna Funder
Reading Anna Funder’s book Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, about George Orwell and his wife Eileen, feels like listening to a clairvoyant seeking meaning and explanation from the tea leaves and dregs left in a stormy teacup after a seance. Perhaps Funder’s “sincere hope” that the biographers of Orwell (including Bernard Crick and Gordon Bowker, who are dead) will “embrace” Wifedom “in the spirit in which is intended” will be fulfilled if the spirit behind Wifedom materialises.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Anna Funder |Sandra Newman
Orwell is having another moment in the age of Trump, Putin and #MeToo. Aside from the two books under review, five major works of non-fiction on Orwell and one novel inspired by Nineteen Eighty-Four have been published in this calendar year alone.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | D.J. Taylor |Glenn Burgess |Anna Funder |Colin Burrow
What a difference six inches can make. George Orwell was shot in the neck on 20 May 1937 while fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the POUM (roughly translatable as ‘The Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification’). He was six foot two. If he’d been five foot eight the bullet would have gone through his head. If that had happened, what would the world think of him now? We wouldn’t have the word ‘Orwellian’ in the OED’s sense, ‘characteristic or suggestive of the writings of George Orwell, esp.
