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 ...

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Who was the Real George Orwell? Biographer DJ Taylor speculates on the man himselfWho was the Real George Orwell? Biographer DJ Taylor speculates on the man himself ...

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

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

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 ...

George Orwell managed to combine a conservative temperament with a socialist rejection of oppression. A lively new biography of the English radical explains how he held these contradictions together.

But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued national anxiety is George Orwell’s 1984. Soon after senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that the administration was issuing ...

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.

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 ...

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