The artist first read “Nineteen Eighty-Four” when he was an art student in the 1980s. On reading it again, he said he realized “that it was still a really resonant book, (and) that it seemed ...

A dystopia is an imagined society characterized by poverty, squalor, oppression and often a nightmare quality. It’s the ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four even spawned an adjective to describe such circumstances, “Orwellian”: a label so powerful that opposing political wings deploy it to describe those actions and policies ...

George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on the island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides, he went on a fishing trip with ...

George Orwell’s new novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Harcourt, Brace), confirms its author in the special, honorable place he holds in our intellectual life. Orwell’s native gifts are perhaps not of a ...

The artist first read Nineteen Eighty-Four when he was an art student in the 1980s. On reading it again, he says he realised “that it was still a really resonant book, ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four – published 75 years ago, in summer 1949 – depicts an imagined future where the world sees its people surveilled and controlled by three totalitarian states constantly at war.

More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...

The brainwave to pulp them and turn them into copies of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” came when Shrigley re-read the dystopian novel during the pandemic — 2020 marked 70 years ...