For years, social media users on X, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms have claimed George Orwell, the British author best known for his novels "1984" and "Animal Farm," once said: "At 50 ...

10:53 a.m. Aug. 21, 2023: An earlier version of this article included an incorrect photograph of George Orwell’s wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy Blair. The woman pictured was his second wife, Sonia ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe Audible has made 2024 America’s “1984,” with our freshly reconsidered antiheroes and love amid climate collapse. But not George Orwell’s.

Some books need no subtitle, and “George Orwell and Russia” is one of them. Orwell leapt to everyone’s mind when, on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched his brutal war on Ukraine, on a ...

FEW WRITERS have achieved the cult status of George Orwell. He is so much a part of the collective imagination that John Rodden, an Orwell scholar, goes so far as to call him “the most important ...