While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

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 ...

Richard Haugh/BBC The artist Pure Evil has painted a mural at the entrance to Southwold's pier celebrating George Orwell Mr Blair spoke as a new biography on Orwell by Norwich writer and novelist ...

The winners own the emotional power of a word or phrase. The others find themselves on the defensive and have to use less ...

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 statue has been unveiled outside BBC New Broadcasting House The BBC headquarters in London has got a new resident: he's tall, bronze and likes a smoke. A statue of novelist ...

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

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, ...