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Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...
While it is hard to quantify the program’s effect in absolute terms, its history offers valuable lessons for today, not least ...
A playwright and screenwriter, she adapted a book about domestic abuse for NBC, bringing a taboo subject into the national ...
Orwell's novel “1984”, written in 1949, predicted a dystopia where language, memory, and truth were controlled by the state.
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Digital Camera World on MSNThe 25 best photographer autobiographies ever writtenOne of the masters of 20th-century photography, Edward Weston’s diaries were written between 1922 and 1934 but compiled and ...
Music has been the driving force of the legendary Scottish author's career. At 66, he's releasing a new Trainspotting sequel ...
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AllAfrica on MSNEast Africa: Ethiopian Writers of Short Stories the Boom and the BustYe Gulelew Sekaram in Amharic or 'The Drunkard of Gulelle' is officially recognized as the first modern short story in Amharic literature which was written and published around 1946 by Temesgen Gebre, ...
Milan Kundera Publisher: Faber & Faber / 1984 Pages: 314 This book is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera about two women, two ...
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Edmonton Journal on MSNOpinion: In Alberta schools, books aren’t the threat — censorship isAlberta’s minister of Education and Childcare recently issued an order banning some books from all school libraries in the ...
The novelist George Orwell is remembered with a blue plaque at 50 Lawford Road Kentish Town, where he lived from August 1935 until January 1936.
The best book to read depends more on the personality than popularity. Just because it is a bestselling novel doesn’t mean that everyone will like it, which is why we offer our take on which book ...
Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 30 July) is Threads, the 1984 post-apocalyptic war drama and cautionary tale.
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