It was a source of no small irony to read George Orwell's essays in the closing days of the election season -- although not for the reasons one might expect. Sure, there were plenty of Orwellian turns ...

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, however, ...

Picture of George Orwell which appears in an old acreditation for the BNUJ. (image via Wikimedia Commons) LOS ANGELES — One of my favorite websites, Longform.org, just announced they’re celebrating ...

(LONDON) — An arts foundation in England has released an unpublished culinary essay by the legendary author George Orwell, complete with an apology to the writer more than 70 years after it was ...

US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

"Animal Farm" and "1984" are required reading for students of both British and American culture, but George Orwell was more an essayist than he was a novelist. Two volumes of his essays, Facing ...

Literary critics have been studying George Orwell’s novels and essays for almost a century, and it is well-established by now what political ideologies and ideas the writer was against. But by paying ...

George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, intro. by Christopher Hitchens. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-871-40410-7 Reviewed by David Brooks. George Orwell has become a literary saint ...

Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" shot to the top of bestseller lists. Suddenly, it seemed, readers wanted to reacquaint themselves with a world in ...

WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and views on ...