George Orwell’s “1984,” published seventy years ago today, has had an amazing run as a work of political prophecy. It has outlasted in public awareness other contenders from its era, such as Aldous ...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984, by the British music critic Dorian Lynskey, makes a rich and compelling case for the novel as the summation of Orwell’s entire body of ...
By Mark Buckton - Taipei In his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell depicted a world where truth was malleable, information ...
Big Brother. 2+2=5. The memory hole. "Truth isn’t truth." Sound familiar? They’re from George Orwell’s dark masterpiece, "1984." OK, not all of those phrases. That last one, "Truth isn’t truth," ...
As he sat down to write "1984," George Orwell was reeling from the death of a wife and suffering from a lung ailment. ZUMAPRESS.com Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two ...
#1984IsHere is the go-to hashtag on Saturday on Twitter, referencing George Orwell’s dystopian novel about the consequences of an authoritarian government, as many on the right see the banning of ...