If he is never sure how seriously to take what is said, he feels like a man walking over ice in leather-soled shoes ... That was, after all, why George Orwell did not want to meet the authors of the ...

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Facing Tooting Broadway Tube station, J.J. Moon’s name ironically derives from George Orwell’s famous essay ... settlement recorded in the Domesday book. What the punters say: ‘Worst ...

Those of us who have studied literature at some point often find ourselves recalling a scene in a book, perhaps a quote from a favorite author or a poem that comes to mind in light of a current ...

I think the book that changed me the most was George Orwell’s 1984 and I would probably pick that as the book that I most enjoyed.” Harris added: “I think that it’s a book that changed the ...

By Alexis Schaitkin Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures.

A half hour before the start of Tuesday’s, March 11, presentation to discuss a proposed piece of legislation seeking to ...

By Alexandra Jacobs Our crime columnist recommends books starring hard-boiled investigators who are ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. By Sarah Weinman In ...

So far, so Orwell. However, “The Dream Hotel” is ... a Moroccan-American novelist and former finalist for a Pulitzer prize and National Book Award, tells her dystopian tale by combining ...