To commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...

A new introduction in the 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's classic novel about "thoughtcrime" landed at the center of the culture wars.

Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism.

When George Orwell wrote 1984 – his self-proclaimed “satire” – in 1949, he couldn’t have foreseen how it would irrevocably ...

It's been 75 years since author George Orwell penned his final novel: "1984." I reread the novel this year and Orwell's vision of a totalitarian society is scarier than ever.

When George Orwell penned his now-famous dystopian novel, “1984” — released 67 years ago in June 1949 — it was intended as fiction. The futuristic setting is more than three… ...

Beyond membership in the Pantheon of Famous Brits, Winston Churchill and George Orwell would seem to have little in the way of common ground. Churchill was a politician. Orwell was a journalist ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years ...

At a time when George Orwell’s ’1984’ feels more relevant than ever, Sandra Newman’s novel ‘Julia’ critiques Orwell’s misogyny in ‘1984’ while joining a long tradition of ...

English writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India at the turn of the 20th Century and went on to write commentary on the threat of totalitarianism, democratic ...

Orwell believed that having to cater to the instability imposed by totalitarianism—having to constantly adjust one’s world view—was murderous to the writer, or at least to writing.