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In his disturbing novel 1984, George Orwell famously took readers into a blood-chilling, futuristic nation where the ...
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Is 2025 the New 1984?
Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love ...
The CIA Book Club’, by Charlie English, recounts the secret history of the CIA’s literary warfare programme during the Cold War ...
The best dystopian literature is written in response to current events. George Orwell wrote “1984” in 1948, during the peak ...
While it’s impossible to predict the future, we’re already seeing some solid publishing trends as 2025 heads into ...
The Making of the President 1960 laid the foundation for election books; it became a bestseller, won Theodore White a ...
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NICHOLAS MOKUA: Echoes of animal farm
A popular adage tells us that, “If you want to hide something, hide it in a book” ; similar to, “If you want to hide a tree, hide it in a forest!” Animal Farm is a great book. It is an allegorical and ...
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) scored a bad own goal by autocratically banning the recently released song ...
As zombie hit 'The Last of Us' returns for a second series, here's where else viewers can feast their imagination on the fall ...
Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...