Orwell’s five years in Burma temporarily shelved his literary ambitions, but, as journalist Dorian Lynskey writes in The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984, the experience ...

Orwell’s perennially relevant dystopian novel is a condemnation of the Soviet Union’s embrace of Stalinism and the censorship ...

Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and control without direct surveillance. Explore the impact of industrialization ...

I was suddenly struck by the phrase “George Orwell was right,” referring to his seminal novel “1984.” So, I Googled to see if anyone else had the same idea and, if so, what they had to say.

Eric Arthur Blair, universally known as George Orwell, the genius behind the thought-provoking allegory Animal Farm, was born on June 25, 1903. What may surprise some is that this literary maestro ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

The year is 1984. It’s Super Bowl Sunday and you turn on the TV to see a procession of stern men marching through a tunnel.

Apple’s iconic Macintosh advert, simply called “1984” and based on George’s Orwell’s novel of the same name, featured a “Big Brother” figure addressing hordes of subjects from a ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

George Orwell’s 1984 has long been hailed as a literary masterpiece, presenting a dystopian future with themes of political corruption that mirror the fears of his generation. More surprisingly ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June 1940, was that ‘Unity is going to have a baby’. But no birth records have ever been discovered ...

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...