“Special military operation.” “Department of Government Efficiency.” “Enhanced interrogation techniques.” “Alternative facts.” We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, was first published. The organizations behind Banned Books Week based ...

Author George Orwell’s estate has reportedly given the green light to allow an author to "retell" the classic novel "1984" from a feminist perspective. The estate, according to the Guardian, will ...

Big Brother is watching. And people are reading. Thanks to the ongoing National Security Administration surveillance scandal, George Orwell’s “1984” is enjoying a surge in popularity, landing at No. 4 ...

A fresh printing of Orwell's masterpiece at the Hong Kong book fair: This was the book the world needed to read. Credit: Aaron Tam / AFP via Getty Images Saying George Orwell's 1984 is my favorite ...

Try this quiz about the bookish influences on Homer Simpson, Kate Bush and others to see how many connections you know. By J. D. Biersdorfer His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism ...

In the first few weeks after Donald Trump got elected, George Orwell — an author who died in 1950, when Trump was still a child — saw his books rocket to the top of bestseller lists. The gaslighting ...

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