But the allegory deepens with the Upside Down itself. This malevolent dimension, controlled by the Mind Flayer, parallels the Cold War’s intangible dangers—ideologies and technologies that could ...

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.

Eleanor Antin reveals the process behind her 2007 series Helen’s Odyssey, and the roles that truth and allegory play in her photographic work. ART21: You enjoy making photographs, and you’ve made them ...

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 ...

For many years after I first read George Orwell’s 1949 masterwork, 1984, I leaned eagerly into current events, trying to discern if the writer’s dystopian vision of the future was likely to be ...

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With a wee bit of luck, you’ll be commemorating the day with your lads and lassies and sharing one of these St. Patrick's Day quotes to show your spirit for all things Irish. Even if you plan to ...