Superlatives may get people's attention, but they don't do much to reward it. So if one were to hazard, for example, that novelist Thomas Pynchon's foreword to the new Plume edition of "Nineteen ...

From e-challans to clamping down on fake news, almost everything is lazily labelled as ‘Orwellian’ these days by people who ...

When George Orwell sat down in a remote Scottish farmhouse to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, in 1948, he wasn’t trying to predict the future. Instead he was issuing a warning. Whether we live in the ...

Sandra Newman’s “Julia,” a feminist retelling of George Orwell’s much-adapted 1949 dystopian political novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has found publishers on both sides of the pond. Variety understands ...

Turning up at Broadcasting House in 2017 for the unveiling of the BBC’s George Orwell statue, I came across Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, being interviewed by Amol Rajan and a posse of cameramen. “I ...

I just reread Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four last year and noted many of the same quotes you cited in your article. Another you may recall is “doublethink is a vast system of mental cheating”. This ...

Vladimir Putin’s Russia is here to correct the literary record. A spokeswoman for the Moscow strongman argued that George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is not about the perils of totalitarian ...

My copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has cardboard covers. Front and back, the book is decorated with cheesy reproduced paintings. Big Brother wears an evil goatee and eye makeup. A red ...

Although he has abandoned science-fiction in the last several years to write thrillers that explore modern-day culture, William Gibson is still very much associated with the genre. While discussing ...