What George Orwell’s 1984 can teach us about 2024. Story by Sean Illing • 5mo. ... This is an intellectual biography but it is not, to its credit, a hagiography.

Eileen married Orwell in 1936, and nine years later, at 39, she became ill with cancer. Demoralized by illness and by Orwell’s infidelities, nastiness and neglect (according to Funder), she ...

WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and ...

British author George Orwell once said: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." Rating: Correct Attribution (About this rating?) For years, social media users on X, Facebook, Instagram, and ...

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 ...

Let’s start with Taylor. He traces the usual biographical arc, from Orwell’s birth in Bengal in 1903 to his death from tuberculosis in 1950, via boarding-school sufferings, a spell in the ...

Sandra Newman, a novelist, is the author of “Julia: A Retelling of George Orwell’s ‘1984.’ ” Have you heard that the writer who invented the Thought Police has fallen victim to modern ...

What George Orwell would say about Trump – and how to handle him. Orwell conjured up the ultimate dictatorship to illustrate how anti-democratic leaders use brazen deceit to prove and magnify ...

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 ...