George Orwell ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images The documentary serves partly as biography of Orwell, who was born Eric Arthur Blair in what is now the state of Bihar in India.

Orwell's dystopian novel featured a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the ...

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 ...

A category that Orwell did not investigate is “bad bad books,” required reading despite their badness. We read them for the profit of understanding their time.

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. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took ...

The British writer Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell (1903-1950), devised the formula ‘2+2=5’ to encapsulate the ways in which totalitarianism coerces its subjects into accepting ...

How was that experience for you? (laughs) Digging dirt on author George Orwell was not my aim but I was very shocked at what I found. Well, I think that he was a repressed homosexual. There is a ...