Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.

I did a spit-take when I read “Time to Bring Back ‘Animal Farm'” [Letters, March 15]. The writer suggested that anyone who was interested in democratic socialism would do well to … ...

Sometimes called the conscience of a generation, Orwell is best known for two novels: Animal Farm and 1984. Both books, ...

The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War, by Peter Stansky (Stanford University Press, 150 pp., $14) Few writers have left a literary and intellectual legacy as hotly disputed as George Orwell ...

Seventy-five years ago, in August 1946, George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was published in the United States. It was a huge success, with over a half-million copies sold in its first year.

In his 1949 review, Lionel Trilling writes that George Orwell’s “1984” is about a state power that was coercing, not cosseting, its citizens into soullessness.

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We imagine a one-party state, a massive bureaucratic dictatorship with no free elections and no freedom of speech or religion where the government controls all aspects of life. We think of the tyranny ...

George Orwell Said, 'At 50, Everyone Has the Face He Deserves'? The author of "1984" and "Animal Farm" died in 1950 at the age of 46. Caroline Wazer Published Aug. 25, 2024 Image courtesy of ...

George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was an instant success when it was first published. His writings on totalitarianism and socialism continue to be relevant today.