The anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s greatest novel is an opportunity to recognise literature’s capacity to provoke and instruct, and to inspire independent thought and action. (Photo ...

When George Orwell sat down in a remote Scottish farmhouse to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, in 1948, he wasn’t trying to predict the future. Instead he was issuing a warning. Whether we live in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Innovator: Orwell (standing, far left) recording Voice with T S Eliot (sitting third from left) and colleagues - BBC Turning up at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his ...

George Orwell endured a case of tuberculosis and a near-death experience while writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. | Ivan Radic, Flickr // CC BY 2.0 George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has given ...

Sandra Newman’s “Julia,” a feminist retelling of George Orwell’s much-adapted 1949 dystopian political novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has found publishers on both sides of the pond. Variety understands ...

Since first appearing in the popular lexicon, the term “Orwellian” has conjured up a vision of the prototypical “totalitarian state”: a one-party dictatorship that swarmed with secret police, spied on ...

My copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has cardboard covers. Front and back, the book is decorated with cheesy reproduced paintings. Big Brother wears an evil goatee and eye makeup. A red ...

Although he has abandoned science-fiction in the last several years to write thrillers that explore modern-day culture, William Gibson is still very much associated with the genre. While discussing ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) There's nothing new about calling George Orwell's most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in ...