During a panel at the PEN America World Voices Festival, Jennifer Egan described George Orwell's 1984 as a formative read "I remember when I read that, I thought, 'I would never do that,' ” she ...

Most readers come away from George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 with the same singular desire: to inhabit the world of the book by playing a late '90s first-person puzzle-adventure PC ...

Weeks after the 2016 election, George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” shot to the top of bestseller lists. Suddenly, it seemed, readers wanted to reacquaint themselves with a world in which ...

Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism.

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 ...

Andy Serkis on Reimagining George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ for a New Era The actor-turned-director's updated adaptation of the 1945 classic premiered at the Annecy animation film festival this ...

Essay We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today? Photo illustration by Alex Merto ...

“Orwell: 2+2=5” is an artful balancing act, one that dips in and out of Orwell’s life and work, but also uses a broad array of reference points as it swings from history to art to the most ...