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

If you have read a corporate report recently, you probably know what kind of writing Orwell was describing. The same problems he identified in political writing plague business communication: overused ...

Ranging from 1911, during Orwell’s school days, until his death in 1950, George Orwell, Author, George Packer, Compiled by, compiled and with an intro. by George Packer. Harcourt $25 (308p ...

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

to freedom of thought and to privacy – all things pointedly absent in Orwell’s novel. 3. 1984’s hero – Winston Smith – is deeply flawed The main character, Winston Smith, is not a ...

Ben Wattenberg: Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. The year 2003 marks the centennial of author George Orwell’s birth. Called by some the most important writer of the twentieth century, his legacy is ...

George Orwell famously argued that clear language in politics can be a bulwark against oppression. But in the Trump era, his solution no longer holds.

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel ...

The sign above it reads The George Orwell Library. The small library keeps books about totalitarianism and dystopian worlds Inside, the tiny library offers a selection of books on dystopian worlds ...

He was adopted by Eric Blair - better known by his pen name of George Orwell. Orwell's novel 1984 was the origin of the popular understanding of "Big Brother" and "Room 101". Mr Blair told BBC ...