It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at ...

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A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of 1984 ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

THE COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL. Edited by Sonia Orwell and fan Angus. Four volumes (2,041 pages), Harcourt, Brace & World. $34.80 the set By all odds, George Orwell is ...

With permission from the Orwell estate, Sandra Newman's latest novel takes place in the same world and with many of the same characters as 1984, but retold through the eyes of Winston Smith's love ...

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality ...

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term ...

Try this quiz about the bookish influences on Homer Simpson, Kate Bush and others to see how many connections you know. By J. D. Biersdorfer His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism ...

Orwell’s real fear was never the machine. It was how power could use it to erase dissent, rewrite truth, and make obedience ...