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 ...

Lost and Found” draws parallels between apartheid South Africa, segregation in the United States and the modern world.

He is author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four which was longlisted for the Orwell and Baillie Gifford prizes. Lynskey’s latest book is Everything Must Go: ...

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 ...

Despite industry turmoil, old and new shows continue to innovate, whether investigating Elon Musk, high-school mysteries, or ...

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

The assistant principal at Dapto High School near Wollongong has won international recognition for his scholarly research on George Orwell, author of books including Nineteen Eighty-Four and ...

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

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