Geoff Dyer’s biography of D H Lawrence, Out of Sheer Rage (1997), famously puts the ‘auto’ into the biographical and tells us much more about Dyer than it does about Lawrence. John Sutherland’s new ...

What a difference a decade makes. In 1940 George Orwell published his eighth book, the essay collection Inside the Whale, but when the Nazis in the same year drew up a list of Britons to be arrested ...

Technology has progressed to a point so vast that most people have the entire world at their fingertips. Collective knowledge ...

Noam Chomsky’s notion of the human instinct for freedom ties together his many intellectual pursuits, from educating creative ...

For readers in the Soviet Union and later in Russia Orwell’s last novel has never been “dystopian” – they recognized every aspect of their own country: ‘the system of organized lying’, rewriting of ...

In Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied, Patrick Cockburn explores the fascinating life of his father, journalist ...

Instead of clamping down on those making hate speeches, Uttar Pradesh police are cracking down on journalists and ...

Selected biographies of historic figures featured on bbc.co.uk/history.

Amity Shlaes is the author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and a National Review Institute fellow. The McReagan parable tells us a few things about our own past, and ...

Crisell’s contribution stands apart for its rejection of grandiosity. Instead of feeding the mystique, In Writing exposes the ...

Whose Language is English?, by academic Jieun Kiaer, is a promising linguistic project – but the thesis is incoherent and ...