The groundbreaking novel introduced ideas that continue to shape conversations about surveillance, truth, and unchecked power ...

George Orwell would probably be shocked to see sales of his books skyrocketing in the summer of 2013, 63 years after his death. But with the recent revelations about the government's clandestine ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The literary executor of George Orwell's estate is accusing Amazon.com of doublespeak. In a letter published this week in The New York Times, Bill Hamilton criticized Amazon for ...

Author and environmental activist Rebecca Solnit will discuss her 2022 book, “Orwell’s Roses,” which explores the relationship between Orwell’s interest in gardening and his political philosophy. Lucy ...

Two classic novels by George Orwell have been translated into Welsh for the first time. Animal Farm, a 1945 political allegory inspired by the Russian Revolution, is set in north-west Wales in the ...

NEW YORK – The literary executor of George Orwell's estate is accusing Amazon.com of doublespeak. In a letter published this week in The New York Times, Bill Hamilton criticized Amazon for "turning ...

The recent republication of Christopher Hollis’s controversial critical-biographical study of George Orwell—originally published in 1956 (by Hollis’s own firm, Hollis and Carter) and out of print for ...

Ernest Hemingway wrote that all American literature derived from one book, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In a similar sense, one could argue that modern English prose owes its debt to ...

Literary reputation is an unstable thing. Not so long ago, the luminaries were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Mailer, but one hardly hears about them these days, unless one of their novels is adapted for ...

A modern literary intellectual lives and writes in constant dread—not, indeed, of public opinion in the wider sense, but of public opinion within his own group. As a rule, luckily, there is more than ...