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 ...

This year marks the centennial of George Orwell's birth. English biographer D.J. Taylor, who admits to having a long-standing fascination with Orwell's writings and life, has written an engaging ...

The supreme irony here is that Orwell’s greatest virtue as a writer was his directness and clarity. He wrote so as not to be misunderstood, and yet he is now perpetually misunderstood.

A book written from the perspective of the female love interest in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 has been given the green light by the author's estate. Sandra Newman's Julia will tell the ...

Orwell hated fascists so much he went to war with them “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for ...

It is not enough, really, to say that George Orwell was a great writer. He was, of course. But his lasting appeal seems to lie in the malleability of his message. Orwell’s satiric attacks on ...

In reality, Orwell never wrote or uttered those words, even though they have a broadly Orwellian ring to them. Rather, that maxim was first written by a conservative writer in 2009, but has been ...