George Orwell’s ‘1984’ can teach us how to fight today’s totalitarians 75 years after he wrote it By . Daniel McCarthy. Published June 11, 2024, 7:13 p.m. ET.

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 ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars, has topped ...

Americans still read George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future; now it's 40 years in the past.

In the days that followed Trump's inauguration, George Orwell’s magnum opus “1984” became the best-selling book of any genre on Amazon. While some literature helps us make sense of our ...

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood,” Winston Smith, the pain-addled protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian 1949 classic “1984,” ponders while learning to ...