That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984." Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a ...

One of these was "In Front of Your Nose: 1945–1950," the fourth volume of the "Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell," which first published in 1968 and was co-edited by Soni ...

but Orwell’s Island: George, Jura and 1984, by Les Wilson, treats it as a subject worthy of stand-alone attention. The book is at odds with our sense of Orwell as an intrepid journalist.

English writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India at the turn of the 20th Century and went on to write commentary on the threat of totalitarianism ...

George Orwell’s new novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Harcourt, Brace), confirms its author in the special, honorable place he holds in our intellectual life. Orwell’s native gifts are perhaps ...

George Orwell envisioned the dangers of monolithic government armed with artificial intelligence in his famous novel of a future dystopia, "1984," published in 1949. The Party, led by Big Brother ...

Earlier this month, Elon Musk posted a picture on X (formerly Twitter) showing off his new T-shirt emblazoned with “What Would Orwell Think” — an ironic homage from a man many see as ...

You can imagine what George Orwell, a crusader for linguistic precision and scourge of slippery euphemisms, would have made of that. It is a massive cliche to invoke Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen ...

An essay by George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” changed the trajectory of my career. I pivoted from a job as a college literature teacher to become a writing coach for students ...

She is buried under the epitaph “Wife of Eric Arthur Blair.” Eric Arthur Blair — better known as George Orwell. Of course Big Brother isn’t just watching us anymore — he’s listening to ...

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 ...

Toward the end of Kits Lane is a thatched cottage, the former home of George Orwell, who lived there from 1936 to 1940. Fans of “Animal Farm” (1945) will be delighted to know that there is a ...