How George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ predicted the global power shifts now underway

There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his ...
Star Tribune

Government surveillance reports spark sales for Orwell's '1984,' Huxley's 'Brave New World'

NEW YORK — The country's book-buyers are reading up on being watched. Sales for dystopian classics such as George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" have been strong since news ...
Concord Monitor

Letter: It Was Grapes of Wrath the Whole Time

For years, Americans have debated whether our society resembles George Orwell’s 1984 or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The conversation misses the mark. We are not primarily trapped in the ...

How interwar fiction made sense of an increasingly noisy world

Noise first became a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the ‘age of noise’ by dystopian author Aldous Huxley.