It turns out there were some pretty solid sci-fi movies released that year, including a fairly faithful adaptation of Orwell’s novel i ...

Richard Blair, 80, was adopted by Orwell and his wife after they struggled to conceive naturally. The British writer is ...

Orwell and Huxley offered contrasting dystopias: oppression versus distraction. Which feels more real today? Explore their ...

You can imagine what George Orwell, a crusader for linguistic precision and scourge of slippery euphemisms, would have made of that. It is a massive cliche to invoke Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen ...

I give it a doubleplusgood out of 10.

Big Brother would have put players in control of a new character named Eric Blair — a reference to Orwell’s real name — as he attempted to rescue his fiancée from the Thoug ...

And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.