George Orwell's crusade against the misuse of language resulted in his name becoming an adjective—and his writing becoming ...

At one point in Orwell’s novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), the protagonist Gordon Comstock meets his girlfriend ...

GEORGE NEWS - From a path full of seemingly endless turmoil and alcohol addiction, heading for complete destruction, Geraldine Joy Wolmarans has made an about turn to clean up her life, choosing to ...

Having failed to convince people that Donald Trump is Hitler, will leftists now try to persuade people that Mr. Trump is worse than Stalin? The question arises as a classic critique of Soviet ...

Many, if not most, of us read the same dozen or so “important” novels while in school. Stuff like The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, All the King’s Men, etc. One of the usual go-tos is ...

Think of Rebecca Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses as a whydunit. Beyond admitting how much he influenced her as a writer/journalist/activist, Solnit was also moved to learn of the rose bushes Orwell planted by ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. To understand socialism’s threat, a letter writer here recently advised us ...

People think they remember “1984.” They remember Big Brother's face on the poster. They remember "War is Peace" and the vague dread of surveillance. But ask them about the mechanics — how ...

What started as an independent study class her sophomore year at Lake George High School, turned Aazrum Tarar into a triple-threat author. Now a senior, Aazrum’s project from that class two years ago ...

In the new documentary "Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell's life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...

George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing thousands of words a day only weakened ...