George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, intro. by Christopher Hitchens. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-871-40410-7 Reviewed by David Brooks. George Orwell has become a literary saint ...

and the sinister control it involved sparked Orwell’s imagination, setting the scene for Winston Smith’s ordeal in Room 101 at the end of the book. Lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy were ...

Radio 4 presents a journey through the life and work of George Orwell, running from late January 2013. Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was ...

Judges described his writing as a heart-rending exploration of working class life and "the book Orwell would have wanted to win". The artist revealed the award has given him some legitimacy.

Amid our thirst for adult colouring books and stories about missing girls ... Tale have all risen up the latest paperback bestseller list. But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone, the ...

George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Apparently, lots of people thought Orwell had something relevant to say in that political moment.

The foundation told BBC News: "George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book which matters but it's also a story in which books themselves - the physical objects, their individual histories and ...