It then brings things to the North American continent by talking about how George W. Bush rallied the country (and some of the world) behind the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq with false information.

As proof of Orwell’s status as a still-relevant writer, at least five books about him have appeared or will appear in 2023: Taylor’s biography; Peter Stansky’s The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

George Orwell, one of the most influential political writers of the 20th century, is widely recognized for his searing critiques of totalitarian regimes in his novels Animal Farm and 1984. Orwell’s ...

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and contribution to the study of George Orwell, his life and work".

George Orwell is one of the many historical personalities who are both well-known and profoundly misinterpreted. Renowned English essayist recognised for his classic works '1984' and 'Animal Farm' has ...

Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art. @StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at.

The latest specific date we found in that notebook was Dec. 16, 1949, around eight months after Orwell jotted down the quotation investigated here, and one month before he died on Jan. 21, 1950 ...

Laura Beers is a historian at American University and the author of a new book called Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century. This is an intellectual biography but it is not ...

Edmond O'Brien and Jan Sterling during the filming of a 1956 adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 Harry Todd / Fox Photos / Getty Images In recent years, some conservative American groups have ...