The groundbreaking novel introduced ideas that continue to shape conversations about surveillance, truth, and unchecked power ...

Today's quote is from an essay he wrote about one of his closest writer confidants, and it very much doesn't shy from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Orwell too was known to roam, which might be one reason why Solnit’s latest book, “Orwell’s Roses,” is, from its beautiful ...

That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984." Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a world ...

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?

Beyond membership in the Pantheon of Famous Brits, Winston Churchill and George Orwell would seem to have little in the way of common ground. Churchill was a politician. Orwell was a journalist and ...

Before he assumed the pen name George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903-January 21, 1950) had a relatively normal upbringing for an upper-middle-class English boy of his time. Looking back now, ...

To judge “Down and Out in Paris and London” and the motives of its author, consider the context of how it came to be written. Orwell began “tramping” and staying in shelters in 1928, when he was ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In 2012, I had one of those experiences about which every book collector dreams. I'd spent a ...

George Orwell’s "Animal Farm" is one of those classic stories that gets passed down to every generation to remind them about the inherent dangers of corruption and manipulation from government leaders ...

In the first few weeks after Donald Trump got elected, George Orwell — an author who died in 1950, when Trump was still a child — saw his books rocket to the top of bestseller lists. The gaslighting ...