ORWELL Wintry Conscience of a Generation By Jeffrey Meyers W.W. Norton; 357 pages; $27.95 ...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by award-winning novelist, critic, and biographer D.J. Taylor to discuss his new book, Who Is Big Brother? A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. They discuss Orwell’s ...

As George Orwell appreciated, the correlate is that social and historical progress require an awareness of, and receptivity to, both historical fact and competing historical narratives.

George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words Will Self's attack on Orwell reveals the dramatic divide in contemporary fiction over clarity vs. embroidery ...

Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco. In May 1947, he felt he had a third of a draft, and in November, a completed one.

What George Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Aldous Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book for there would be no one who wanted to read one.

Add Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn to the list of American politicians who need a George Orwell refresher. The first-term congressman said in an oddly worded tweet on Tuesday "1984 is a great ...

FEW WRITERS have achieved the cult status of George Orwell. He is so much a part of the collective imagination that John Rodden, an Orwell scholar, goes so far as to call him “the most important ...

The claim: Author George Orwell said 'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices' Invoking George Orwell’s name (often ...