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George Orwell died in 1950 ... the idea people get from selected quotes has contributed to Orwell’s resurgence in an era of neopatriotism. In an article in The Telegraph this year on Ireland ...

A philosophy and law professor at Wayne State University who studies the writings of George Orwell (“1984”) is using the ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about the state of politics if he was alive today, his son has told the BBC. Richard Blair was speaking on the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth.

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Apparently, ...

Andrew Weissmann reacted to President-elect Donald Trump's latest DOJ nomination by claiming America was entering "pure George Orwell 1984 land." ...