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

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Orwell, before the war, was not widely known in America or even, I think, in England. He is one of several English writers who were only just beginning to be recognized in those years of ...

George Orwell is no longer a socialist ... I know why the people in my novel submitted to the telescreens. That could be life or death. I get that. But now? - We do it voluntarily without any ...

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

John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like watching ten movies about his life.' Joseph Millson on The Real George Orwell dramas Joseph ...

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

The author, George Orwell, published Animal Farm in 1945 ... Old Major, a respected pig, reveals his dream: a vision of a fairer life where the animals are in charge. Then, Old Major dies ...

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and ...