Salon

George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same

In the first few weeks after Donald Trump got elected, George Orwell — an author who died in 1950, when Trump was still a child — saw his books rocket to the top of bestseller lists. The gaslighting ...
Post and Courier

Review: George Orwell was a terrible husband and other revelations in 'Wifedom'

WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and views on ...
Observer

Is It Wicked?: On Rebecca Solnit, George Orwell, and Roses

Orwell’s Roses shifts lyrically between Orwell’s life and a history of roses. Solnit refers to the structure of the book as “rhizomatic.” Through Orwell’s hopeful gardening, she weaves Lenin’s ...
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Authors break down why George Orwell's '1984' feels closer to real life than ever before

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...