This was the book the world needed to read. Credit: Aaron Tam / AFP via Getty Images Saying George Orwell's 1984 is my favorite book is like saying Star Wars is my favorite movie franchise.

He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?

George Orwell’s political ... are usually wrong,” wrote Orwell, and so we have to consider 1984 less as a foretelling and more as a warning. That said, the book is also a repudiation of ...

George Orwell’s 1984 has long been hailed as a literary masterpiece ... More surprisingly, however, is how relevant the book still is despite the titular date now being further in the past ...