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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 ...
The answer, Orwell wrote, was, “If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls, they didn’t happen. So with innumerable other events of the past 10 or 20 years. … In no case do you get ...
Raoul Peck, who will be at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his George Orwell documentary, "Orwell: 2+2=5," delivered a blistering warning about the global rise of autocracy this week at ...
For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck's documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel "1984" and its connections ...
What Orwell Didn’t Anticipate George Orwell famously argued that clear language in politics can be a bulwark against oppression. But in the Trump era, his solution no longer holds.
A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell’s original text. By Shreya Chattopadhyay Shreya Chattopadhyay is on the editorial staff of the Book Review ...