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

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.

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a ...

George Orwell’s 1984 is one of those works that seems to become more relevant as time goes on. When I first read it, I was struck by how many of the novel’s central warnings—from the ...

According to onlookers from Woolverstone Marina and Lodge Park the six dolphins played for about an hour around their boat on the River Orwell, in Suffolk. So how common is it to see dolphins in ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

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 ...