"2 + 2 = 5" loses its edge whenever it sporadically attempts to include material fleshing out Orwell's life outside of his most famous creation. His other well-known allegory for Stalinist Russia ...

The speakeasy-style D.C. bar, Allegory, is mixing whimsy and cutting-edge mixology techniques alongside storytelling and a message of inclusivity. While hidden behind a nondescript door of the ...

Royal Mint The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint is releasing a new coin honoring George Orwell on the 75th anniversary of his death. The £2 (roughly $2.45) piece pays homage to Nineteen Eighty-Four ...

1984 ends not with a bang, but with a grammar lesson. Readers of George Orwell’s novel—still reeling, likely, from the brutal dystopia they’ve spent the previous 300-odd pages living in ...

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list.

Like other historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, Orwell has been a magnet for falsely attributed quotes, some of which Snopes has debunked before. In this case ...

Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche are obvious candidates. But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political novels of the ...

Often quotes like this mysteriously appear on the internet and are shared so many times it becomes nearly impossible to trace where exactly they originated. As far as we can determine, Orwell didn ...