ORWELL Wintry Conscience of a Generation By Jeffrey Meyers W.W. Norton; 357 pages; $27.95 ...

Some complete works by the world-renowned dystopian political novel writer George Orwell will be serialized in 1,000-1,500 word excepts on Substack.

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 ...

Half a century ago, George Orwell, writing on literary censorship, wrote that “unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.” ...

George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. ... Orwell’s call for unambiguous writing, filled with imagery is a step away from hate.

Orwell had a thoroughly professional approach to writing and a finished style, though his literary judgments were sometimes eccentric. As mentioned above, he would canvass Gissing, quite seriously ...

W e don’t easily think of George Orwell as a comic writer. We also don’t think of him principally as a writer of novels, though he wrote six, including Animal Farm and 1984, the books that earned him ...

Margaret Atwood has been writing for a long time – and as she tells NPR's Leila Fadel, the world looks very different today than it did when she started. Her new collection of short stories, Old ...

Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says that Orwell's essay "Politics and the English ...

A mural depicting writer George Orwell, in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022. Photo: Darko Vojinovic (AP) “If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behavior ...

Half a century ago, George Orwell, writing on literary censorship, wrote that unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.