| 单词 | George Orwell |
| 例句 | And I was made to listen to George Orwell’s admission that, as a literate man, he would never be able to imagine what it is like to be one of the uneducated poor. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I could end up more like George Orwell and take a bullet through the neck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He liked George Orwell’s work, and for years held on to his copies of Animal Farm and 1984; he also read and admired Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z George Orwell once wrote that whenever a critic uses the word human, he usually renders it meaningless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The writer George Orwell published a novel, Burmese Days, and several essays about life there. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z George Orwell—a keen observer of what lay behind the glitter of constructed facades, social and otherwise—had met Julian on several occasions, and had not liked him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful,” George Orwell, one of Mr. Hitchens’s literary touchstones, wrote. Books of The Times: ?Hitch-22: A Memoir? by Christopher Hitchens 2010-06-01T22:25:00Z Luckily for all of us, Bennett was born with the gift for style that’s been the genetic inheritance of English writers from Jonathan Swift through George Orwell. Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z George Orwell understood the way that one's face is tied up with one's identity when he said that by the age of 40 everyone has the face they deserve. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The literary executors of TS Eliot, George Orwell and Lawrence Durrell have also held back letters and diaries from would-be biographers. The minefield of fame: how accurate do biopics need to be? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The book has drawn critical comparisons with such canonical literature as Michael Herr's Vietnam-era "Dispatches" and the World War I and Spanish Civil War reflections of Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell. Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z George Orwell wrote about doing this, too, in a diary entry from 1947. Jacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z His client Shaker Aamer, a former resident of Britain, took a liking to George Orwell. Photo Essay: Prison Library at Guantánamo 2013-06-11T15:28:38Z In fact, George Orwell, in a famous essay, noted that many of these elements attracted newspaper readers to crime stories in post-war Great Britain, too. Bad girls and gone girls: Why the media tired of ‘missing white women’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z A British adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984,” first staged in 2013, had three successful runs in the West End and national and international tours, including stops in Boston, Los Angeles and Washington. With ’1984’ on Broadway, Thoughtcrime Hits the Big Time 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z As in the Oceania of George Orwell’s “1984”—as in all authoritarian regimes, and those that would emulate them—language, in Gilead, is a weapon of the state. Yes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Feminist 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z "Thinking people who were born about the beginning of this century," George Orwell wrote in 1941, "are in some sense Wells's own creation." David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z Set not long after World War II, the story imagines George Orwell visiting the United States to promote his newest book, “Animal Farm.” Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z George Orwell's Animal Farm is one of literature's unexpected triumphs, and it tells a thousand truths that couldn't quite be told any other way. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z George Orwell got a lot right about our society moving toward a state of constant surveillance, but not everything. In today’s homes, consumers are willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z George Orwell, who fought in it, called his popular memoir "Homage to Catalonia." 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Rebecca, I want to start with talking about George Orwell who is a person who has had a surge of interest after the election of Trump. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z When he isn’t working, he is either reading “1984” — George Orwell was also born in Bihar — or on Twitter. A Novelist Reports ‘From the World of #FakeNews’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z George Orwell, to make sense of an era that seems to be following the script of “1984.” Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Strunk and White had “a tenuous grasp of grammar,” and George Orwell contradicted himself. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z IN 1939, George Orwell wrote of Westerners flocking to Marrakesh in search of “camels, castles, palm-trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays and bandits.” 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco 2010-12-23T21:08:40Z The author of biographies of Malcolm Lowry and George Orwell, Bowker writes knowledgeably and engagingly about his subject, clearly fascinated by how the life led to the words that survive it. 'James Joyce': How the writer's life led to the words that survive him 2012-06-27T20:37:04Z He is a touchstone shared by the psychologist Steven Pinker, the rapper and actor Ice Cube and people on social media who equate the pandemic with George Orwell novels. The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z In June 1944, George Orwell's flat in Mortimer Crescent was destroyed by a doodlebug. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel – review 2013-01-20T09:00:03Z He takes perverse pride in a rare failure: an article on army slang that he sent to George Orwell at Tribune magazine was turned down flat. Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z "The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence," thought George Orwell. Book publishing: Scary reading 2010-07-31T00:04:00Z Nearly 200 independent movie theaters across the United States on Tuesday will screen the film of George Orwell's "1984" novel about a dystopian future in what organizers say is a stand against U.S. Orwell's '1984' back in theaters in stand against 'alternative facts' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z “George Orwell: A Life in Letters” is a judiciously chosen selection of some of the most interesting of these casual writings, from a 20-year period that included both the Great Depression and World War II. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z To paraphrase George Orwell: “If there is hope, it lies in the young.” Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Along with many English radicals – George Orwell, for example – he combined his radical political beliefs with deeply conservative instincts. My hero: William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams 2013-03-08T16:00:03Z As George Orwell pointed out in “1984,” once you can erase the past, the erasure is soon forgotten and the lie becomes the truth. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Mark Twain and George Orwell and Isak Dinesen were something more than they would have been without their pseudonyms, or so it seemed to me. What’s in a Pen Name? 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z ON A Sunday afternoon, George Orwell believed, nothing is more pleasurable than to settle down with a good, true, murder story. Boys’ own 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Andrew Ervin is the author of the novel “Burning Down George Orwell’s House.” Alan Moore’s sprawling new epic, ‘Jerusalem’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z As with George Orwell’s “1984,” at the heart of “J” is a love story. Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future This is something that George Orwell noticed in the 1930s when he was in Germany. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It was on Jura, with a population of fewer than 200, that George Orwell retreated to write “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Travel Books Take You There and Back 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Stephen Spender was attracted towards being an "office clown", Herbert Read fancied a bit of "light engineering" and George Orwell recommended "composing propaganda for bodies such as the British Council". Will Waterstone's have a significant future selling books in Britain? 2012-12-21T22:54:01Z As such, it addresses ideas better explored in classic works like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," George Orwell's "1984" and Mike Judge's "Idiocracy." Concept album by Muse just drones on 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The political writer who, more than any other in the English language, sought to model himself on George Orwell, has finally been recognised with an Orwell prize. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Aldous Huxley believed that we would be destroyed by the things we love, while George Orwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z I wonder what George Orwell would have thought about all this. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z As long as we’re spitballing literary allusions, consider George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which posited that pigs would overthrow their landowner and commence to squabbling murderously among themselves. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Along the way he had lunch with Thomas Mann, got drunk with Dylan Thomas, made friends with George Orwell, flirted with Mary McCarthy, and lived in Cyril Connolly's London flat. Darkness in literature: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler 2012-12-26T08:40:39Z “Down and Out in Paris and London,” by George Orwell. Alice Walker: By the Book 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” may represent the gold standard here. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Like the notorious Room 101 of George Orwell’s “1984,” the chamber that contains the thing each victim fears the most to make them confess, Guantanamo’s name has become synonymous with torture. Memorial for America’s conscience 2012-05-24T20:20:00Z Her outstanding memoir about looking after her demented mother-in-law has earned two awards in the last six months – the Wellcome and George Orwell prizes. My Bonnie: How Dementia Stole the Love of my Life by John Suchet; and Keeper: Living with Nancy. A Journey Into Alzheimer's by Andrea Gillies 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z Many of Gaudi's Catalan contemporaries sneered at his buildings, and George Orwell described the fabled – and still unfinished – La Sagrada Familia as "one of the most hideous buildings in the world". TV highlights 19/08/2011: The Perfect Murder 2011-08-18T22:00:03Z It was George Orwell who once remarked that “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” an aphorism with its own particular relevance where architecture is concerned. Finding Mexico City, and Luis Barragán, Again 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z The text of “George Orwell Was a Friend of Mine” will be published as the book “The Janus Turn,” featuring 12 bound and two loose black-and-white photographs by George Tice. The $9,000 short story: Adam Johnson’s tale is no ordinary book 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Citing George Orwell and Barbara Ehrenreich on working-class life, he notes that smoking gives people who are under the heavy thumb of employers not only pleasure but a measure of autonomy. Celebrating Literature’s Slacker Heroes, Idlers and Liers-In 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Many major figures get the better parts of their own chapters in “The Free World”: Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Isaiah Berlin, James Baldwin. ‘The Free World’ Explains How Culture Heated Up During the Cold War 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Before next year, Headlong will have opened two more shows: American Psycho the Musical and an adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Jeremy Herrin takes helm at Headlong 2013-06-11T12:16:05Z “Burmese Days,” by George Orwell, which I have never previously read. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z There were arson attempts on the theatre in 2009, over a production of Animal Farm that took George Orwell's satire of the corruption of socialist ideas and spun it into a critique of Palestinian politics. Juliano Mer-Khamis obituary 2011-04-11T18:02:15Z Pamela Paul, Book Review Features Editor I adore tales of misery at British public schools, and George Orwell's essay "Such, Such Were the Joys" is the gold standard. ArtsBeat: Times Staffers Recommend 'School Books' 2012-08-24T16:53:00Z The challenge: To intensify an atmosphere of discomfort and distrust, reflecting the George Orwell novel. Ding. Hiss. Chirp. Broadway’s Best Sounds (Other Than the Songs). 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Opening soon is a shrewdly timed adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984”; Michael Moore arrives later this summer blowing Broadway-size spitballs at the White House. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z To paraphrase George Orwell, language can mean whatever the fig you like if you, like Snap!, have got the power. Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z It may have gone over my head a little, but I always understood that when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four and renamed Britain Airstrip One, he meant it as an insult. Whip It? You mean it's not about an undernourished British dog? 2010-04-13T14:45:00Z George Orwell once noted that the "thing that attracts ordinary men to Socialism and makes them willing to risk their skins for it, the 'mystique' of Socialism, is the idea of equality." Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Hovering over modern discussions of usage is the spectre of George Orwell, whose essay “Politics and the English Language” challenged the degeneracy of bureaucratese. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Like an epic version of George Orwell’s “1984,” this novel ranges from the bottom of North Korea’s social ladder to its top, with plenty of affecting, wayward and even comic supporting characters. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z Like George Orwell as essayist, the subject of her latest book and her model, she deploys the full human instrument in service of her curiosity. What George Orwell’s Roses Tell Us About His Politics 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It spawned great works of art—Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica”, Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, and “Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell—lasting improvements in emergency medical treatment and terrible advances in modern warfare. The opening act 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z George Orwell, in an essay on Dickens, wrote that "in England, for mainly geographical reasons, sport, especially field sports, and snobbery are inextricably mingled". Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z In the early 1960s, while Hoffa and Bobby Kennedy were at each other’s throats, Chuckie distributed thousands of copies of George Orwell’s “1984” to union locals at Hoffa’s request. ‘In Hoffa’s Shadow’ Details How a Famous Disappearance Hit Close to Home 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z George Orwell neither fooled anybody, nor tried to, with his meticulous allegory of Stalin's Russia, Animal Farm. Culture flash: fallen dictators 2011-08-24T21:31:01Z George Orwell, himself a genius at political satire, noted that Swift “possessed a terrible intensity of vision, capable of picking out a single hidden truth and then magnifying it and distorting it.” Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z I read George Orwell, not '1984' and 'Animal Farm,' but some of his other writing on the subject. Deltron 3030 is three minds, ten years and finally, a sequel 2013-10-17T13:52:00Z Late last week, it was the No. 2 bestseller on Amazon behind George Orwell’s dystopian classic, “1984.” ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ made J.D. Vance the voice of the Rust Belt. But does he want that job? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z When we think of George Orwell, who died on this date in 1950 at the age of 46, it is primarily as a satirist. Considering George Orwell on the anniversary of his death 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z "It's fairly easy to discover how writers like George Orwell or WH Auden or Laurie Lee reacted to the Spanish crisis. But what Britain's painters and sculptors did is less well known." Spanish Civil War artists go on show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Alternatively one might cite the 1954 adaptation of Animal Farm, George Orwell’s pointed recasting of the Russian revolution as a barnyard revolt, replete with pigs, dogs and horses. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The following day will see a reading of Hall's script for a film version of George Orwell's book Down And Out In Paris And London. Elliot and Monty writers team up 2013-12-11T18:55:24Z Interviews with Julian Assange and mentions of George Orwell are sprinkled throughout, sowing a sense of paranoia. Review: ‘The New Radical’ Asks, Is It O.K. to Build Your Own Gun? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It is like George Orwell's "1984" where Trump's people do not believe in the truth or reality as it actually exists. "The Boys" comics artist Darick Robertson on Amazon's adaptation, politics and "The Punisher" 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Nearly 50 years before that, George Orwell published his dystopian classic, “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” with its “Ministry of Truth” for falsifying historical events and “double-think,” the simultaneous acceptance of two contradictory ideas as true. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z She quotes Hannah Arendt and George Orwell; she talks about the instinct to bow before power, particularly before a supremely confident power. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z In the late 1940s, Barnhill, a stout, white-washed house, on the Scottish island of Jura in the Inner Hebrides, was exactly what George Orwell was looking for: a remote retreat unreachable by vehicle. A tour of Orwell’s Jura, where he wrote 1984 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Beautifully staged, in many now demolished buildings that formed Britain's industrial landscape, Brazil is Monty Python meets George Orwell and it's as clever, witty and subversive as that sounds. Brazil: No 17 2010-10-21T10:38:00Z To get to Barnhill – the cottage where George Orwell wrote 1984– you drive north along the only paved road which wends its way along the east coast of the island, going as far as possible. Readers' tips: literary locations 2010-12-24T11:58:00Z "Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was a writer and political commentator who is very hard to pin down," said the BBC. George Orwell Day 2013-01-21T10:40:54Z The George Orwell- and Joseph Goebbels-inspired "Big Lie" that Trump won the 2020 presidential election is now accepted as literal gospel by the many tens of millions of people who belong to the Trump-Republican cult. "Corrosive beliefs are at the heart of what America is": James Tynion on conspiracy theories 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z True, surveillance is the territory of a different literary dystopia, George Orwell’s “1984,” but for a moment, the intrusion felt eerie. Reading 'Brave New World' in Aldous Huxley's former home 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Local intelligence flows freely, as in the days when the likes of George Orwell or Rudyard Kipling came here. 36 Hours in Yangon, Myanmar 2014-02-07T15:22:35Z In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell describes a nightmarish world of perpetual war, in which two massive nations, Oceania and Eastasia, are aligned against a third nation state known as Eurasia. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z How can you leave George Orwell off the British...well, any....list? Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z But you don’t travel across the globe to a country emerging from decades of isolation just to sip champagne and read George Orwell’s “Burmese Days” by the pool. In Burma, a cruise along the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay to Bagan It’s a bad sign when the first twenty seconds of your comedy show invoke the ghost of George Orwell. SundanceTV’s “The Approval Matrix” wages a weird battle against political correctness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z For every George Orwell, equally adept at nonfiction and the novel, there's William Gass, whose fiction falls as silent to me as his essays sing. Mohsin Hamid's new book takes a post-9/11 view 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The 47-year-old Liphook, England, resident makes his choice, then walks to a spot where writer George Orwell reportedly drank his favorite ales. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It is possible for an evil to be – in the words of George Orwell – “something too normal to be noticed”. Lauren Laverne: How Rolf Harris bit me and got away with it 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z He cites George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London as a seminal book that he "ended up living out for real". 'Rare' male up for romance award 2011-02-11T11:04:31Z We were wrong: The Trump era is not like George Orwell’s “1984.” Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Gulliver's Travels was a bible for George Orwell when he was at Eton, and the dean's excellent blethering horses made a world for me, too, when I was young. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z A futuristic classic often taught alongside George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World," Bradbury's novel anticipated iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events, including televised police pursuits. Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies 2012-06-06T15:02:47Z No fan of the News of the World ... the writer and journalist George Orwell. George Orwell was no fan of the News of the World 2011-07-14T11:15:39Z George Orwell wrote that a creative writer can expect to remain at the top of his form for only about 15 years. John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z On the back, where the jacket copy described George Orwell’s book as “this unusual novel — in good part autobiographical,” Roth scrawled, “It’s not a novel.” Look Inside Philip Roth’s Personal Library 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z George Orwell would be good for moral instruction and easily digestible with his lucid, masterfully controlled prose. Baby, it's a classic 2010-06-28T08:56:00Z An engrossing, deeply reported survey of today’s China, a place that is part George Orwell, part Aldous Huxley. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Writing during World War II, George Orwell remarked upon the contrast between the “gentleness” that characterized contemporary English civilization and the “brutality” that had distinguished English life a hundred years earlier. Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength: In 1949, George Orwell gave us the original alternative facts. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s no coincidence, he says, that in his novel “1984,” George Orwell “made the Ministry of Truth the most important government agency.” O’Shaughnessy’s ‘Men Who Lost America’ wins $50,000 George Washington Book Prize George Orwell celebrated U.S. recognition of his “Animal Farm” in the Dog and Duck pub. Silence shrouds London's deserted midnight party land 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z The largest collection of Orwelliana, including manuscripts, correspondence, audio recordings, photographs and diaries, is at the George Orwell Archive at University College, London. Orwell Birthplace in India to Become a Museum 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Inevitably perhaps I found myself comparing him with George Orwell, and quickly realising that the comparison was unfair. The Expo Files by Stieg Larsson? review 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z Christopher Hitchens, who died last year, wrote an introduction to the George Orwell diaries. Christopher Hitchens's introduction to George Orwell's diaries is published 2012-07-16T11:44:38Z The triumph of International Art English is that it is now possible, on some of contemporary art’s most hallowed stages, to hold forth with arguments so yellow they make Pat Buchanan look like George Orwell. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z Photograph: Rex Features The NSA Prism surveillance scandal has been good news for George Orwell, and in particular for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was originally published in 1949. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z Such dreams come close to the festive Dickensian political vision once exposed by George Orwell: that everything would be all right if there could only be a "change of heart". Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z And again and again: he has a book called “O”—a fable, he says, modelled on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”—coming out later this year in Indonesian. Burning bright 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z We are developing our own slate of film projects, one of which is George Orwell's 'Animal Farm.' Andy Serkis plays dual role in 'Hobbit' - Gollum and director 2012-12-10T18:18:53Z It is hard to talk about politics and language without mentioning George Orwell. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z On his desk sat a cowbell, a pocketknife, a George Orwell reader and an antique ice-cream scoop. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z Another man who walked to the beat of his own drummer was George Orwell.Down and Out in Paris and London is your second choice. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z As in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” the dynamics of oppression and resistance that play out between animals mirror those between humans. Voice in the Wilderness 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z George Orwell is invoked, and Soutphommasane then aligns himself with the school of liberal nationalism. The Virtuous Citizen: Patriotism in a Multicultural Society by Tim Soutphommasane – review 2012-09-29T23:05:09Z Scarves stained with the blood of 1984 author George Orwell, are to be auctioned in London. Bloodstained Orwell scarves for sale 2013-09-24T09:04:32Z When George Orwell distilled his chilling vision of totalitarianism into a single image, he imagined this: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” Perspective | Through the lens of a CNN camera on the ground, a view of American disintegration 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Spain was to prove the fundamental political experience of George Orwell’s life. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Later we spend time with Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles, and with George Orwell, who wrote satirically of “Victory Gin” in “1984.” Books of The Times: ‘The Book of Gin,’ by Richard Barnett 2012-12-11T21:11:25Z The remedy, as so often for such linguo-pessimists, is George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language", about whose loopy prescriptions I have previously recorded my own reservations. Internet English debasing the language? Not IMHO | 2013-05-28T10:10:43Z More relevant than ever … George Orwell, who saw the writer as a free individual striving for objective truth. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z The word reeks of jargon, she says; it “thinks your thoughts for you,” in George Orwell’s phrase. Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps George Orwell was prescient in "1984" when he wrote, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." In health care access, doctor privilege is real. This is how it works 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z I do hope George Orwell will be an acceptable author for students in England. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z For instance, after reading George Orwell’s “Burmese Days,” I made a trip to Myanmar when it was still called Burma. Patti LuPone, From Broadway to the Open Road 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The film-maker, known for politically charged dramas Nixon and JFK, finds the current situation, which he likens to a George Orwell novel, to be at odds with the world that he grew up in. Oliver Stone on Snowden relevance: 'The US government lies all the time' 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z No spoiler alert is needed here: Dawn ends with a closeup of Caesar pondering his lot, like Old Major from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, “Nineteen Eighty-four: A Novel” was published 35 years before 1984. Review | In ‘2034: A novel of the Next World War,’ it’s man against machine 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z In our efforts to make sense of all this we have often turned to George Orwell’s “1984.” Beware the Trump brain rot: The cognitive effects of this administration’s actions could be disastrous 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z There may come a time when George Orwell’s thought crime is seriously proposed as legislation, but for now a man’s imagination is still his own backyard. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z In “The Prevention of Literature,” George Orwell considered the fates of the two genres under nondemocratic rule. The Silencing of Writers in Turkey 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z George Orwell criticized liberals for apologizing for Communism; he continues to inspire me to persist in my position that Islam unreformed, when put into practice, leads to a dystopia. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z He wrote for the New English Weekly, his stories were in Best British Short Stories, he corresponded with Ezra Pound and he shared a flat with George Orwell. Michael Sayers 2010-06-09T17:45:00Z George Orwell, hitting an uncharacteristically sour note, once declared that campers were not only "sandal-wearers and feminists" but had large bottoms too, which is perhaps a generalisation too far. The Art of Camping by Matthew de Abaitua - review 2011-07-06T09:00:01Z In 2003, Stipe admitted that “Disturbance at the Heron House” is his “take” on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” 1987’s “Document” feels especially applicable to America in 2017 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Eliot took a pass on George Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London” and “Animal Farm.” Two New Books Have Anglophiles and Bibliophiles Covered 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z And to quote George Orwell: “Almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist.’ Unite the Right 2 was a failure — but American fascism is not dead 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z George Orwell joined the cause, and documented his experience in his non-fiction book Homage to Catalonia. David Simon plans series based on Spanish civil war 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn’t a prediction. An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z British critics raved, comparing the book to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and to the fantasies of J. R. R. Tolkien, Jonathan Swift and A. A. Milne. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z British director Paul Greengrass, best known for action sequel The Bourne Ultimatum, is to bring George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to the big screen, the Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Greengrass to direct Orwell's 1984 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Other shows have asked theatergoers to infer parallels between fictive worlds and the real one of today, like the British reimagining of George Orwell’s “1984,” currently on Broadway. Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The MoMA installation’s most sobering moment is underfoot, in the words of George Orwell: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.” Barbara Kruger: A Way With Words 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Shortly after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump and his counselor’s invocation of “alternative facts,” anxious readers, bracing themselves for the worst, propelled George Orwell’s “1984” back to the top of the best-seller lists. The Making of ‘1984,’ George Orwell’s Nightmare Vision of a World Without Truth 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Film and TV actor Richard E Grant, who starred with Smith in the 1997 film Keep the Aspidistra Flying, based on the George Orwell novel of the same name, tweeted: Liz Smith, The Royle Family actor, has died aged 95 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Political horror is not a new literary mode — you can find it in the New Testament as well as in such 20th-century works as George Orwell’s “1984.” “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z In his famous jeremiad against hackneyed political rhetoric, George Orwell pointed to a pernicious cycle. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Hurt played a quietly noble Winston Smith, the hero of “1984,” resisting the incursions of Big Brother and the Thought Police in Michael Radford’s film adaptation of that George Orwell novel. Watch John Hurt in His Most Memorable Roles 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z More than 70 years after he resigned from the BBC, George Orwell is coming back to the broadcasting company. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued national anxiety is George Orwell’s “1984.” Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z It's hard to see much of Hitchens in the spare, terse prose of George Orwell. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z George Orwell, of the essays but not so much the novels. Michael Lewis: By the Book 2014-04-10T14:00:01Z Despite winning the Nobel prize, Kipling's reputation has suffered over his association with British imperialism – he was described as a "jingo imperialist" by George Orwell, who also called him "the prophet of British Imperialism". 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 2013-02-25T15:31:38Z From this parish, George Orwell was writing regular book reviews for the Observer while completing Animal Farm. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z Among the books reviewed on Callum’s account are works by Jane Austen, George Orwell and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, as well as the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones series. Top authors take to Instagram to defend teenage book lover 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z “Mark Twain and George Orwell and Isak Dinesen were something more than they would have been without their pseudonyms, or so it seemed to me,” he writes. John Wray and the art of the pseudonym 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The title novella manages to combine George Orwell’s bureaucratic chill from “1984” with Toni Morrison’s elegant judgments from “Beloved.” 10 books to read in November 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The regime in George Orwell’s “1984” declared “War is Peace — Freedom is Slavery — Ignorance is Strength.” Not an 'alternative fact': George Orwell's '1984' tops Amazon's bestseller list 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z To the south was the whirlpool of Corryvreckan, an oceanic spiral that once almost pulled George Orwell to his doom. Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z He considered himself more authentic, in the mold of George Orwell in “Down and Out in Paris and London.” Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “His vision of the future was as profound as any writer of his generation, and that includes George Orwell.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z George Orwell would be proud of that maneuver, I think the process is shambolic.” The Catholic Church’s new gay insult 2013-01-02T19:50:00Z Turning away from this unintelligible disaster, many seek enlightenment in literary and philosophical texts from the past, such as Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” George Orwell’s “1984,” and Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here.” Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “Too drawn-out,” ” George Orwell complained of “King Lear,” “too many characters and subplots.” A King Lear Set in India, Wild and Tragic as Ever 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The play, adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan from the novel by George Orwell, ran from May 18 to Oct. After a Nominator Is Denied Access, ‘1984’ Is Ineligible for Tonys 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z It is not enough to suggest, as George Orwell once put it, that the conflict between this world and the next is a fruitful theme that the ordinary unbelieving writer can't make use of. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z An acclaimed adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian vision on the future, "1984," is crossing the Atlantic to make its U.S. debut on the Broad Stage in Santa Monica this month. In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z “The Memory Police” alludes to a host of storied works of dystopian fiction, positioning itself in the lineage of George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Review | In ‘The Memory Police,’ an authoritarian government tries to erase the past 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But in Trump’s bucks and dogs and piggy banks, we see what George Orwell warned about in his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language.” Analysis | ‘The buck stops with everybody’: How Trump twists cliches to do his bidding 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Why people don't read it: It's the glummest dystopia imaginable. George Orwell, Mills and Boon writer: taking literary mashups to the next level 2010-05-21T12:28:00Z She’s wealthy and fit and well-educated and chic and, to quote George Orwell on Salvador Dalí, as antisocial as a flea. A Sleeping Beauty Hopes Hibernation Is the Answer to All Life’s Problems 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In the first few weeks after Donald Trump got elected, George Orwell — an author who died in 1950, when Trump was still a child — saw his books rocket to the top of bestseller lists. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Seventy-five years ago, in August 1946, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" was published in the United States. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z George Orwell, no less, grappled with it in his 1941 essay "The Lion and the Unicorn". Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings – review 2013-01-27T08:00:01Z George Orwell fails to return any useful results from his Google search. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z This brightly colored homage to George Orwell’s timely allegory is heartbreaking and elegant. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Cabbage is part of the miserable suburban life that George Bowling tries to escape in Coming Up for Air, by George Orwell, and part of the claustrophobic horror of his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Top of the crops: cabbages in art 2010-12-01T23:59:00Z On the back page of the supplement is a quote from George Orwell; ironic that the paper has chosen the greatest leftwing thinker of the last century to write its eulogy. The Sunday papers with ? Billy Bragg 2011-07-10T11:56:00Z The Orwell book prize is intended to discover the work which comes closest to George Orwell's ambition "to make political writing into an art". Orwell prize goes to 'chilling' study of Baha Mousa's death 2013-05-15T19:30:01Z Fantasy is a noble endeavour. is a contemporary subset that goes all the way back to Lucian of Samosata, and Verne and Wells, and Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z And speaking of George Orwell, this art-language exegesis is hardly groundbreaking. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z At Exeter, his English teacher introduced him to movies such as Brazil and Blade Runner, and writers such as TS Eliot and George Orwell. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z “War With the Newts,” published in 1936, is a funny, bizarre, dystopian masterpiece, and Capek deserves a place on the Mount Rushmore of authorial seers, right alongside George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Margaret Atwood. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z A terrific weekend of films influenced by George Orwell's prescient novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" begins Friday with a triple feature led, as it should be, by the big-screen adaptation "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Egyptian Theatre salutes Orwell with film series 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past — George Orwell, "1984" Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Critics of the police moves have called them prosecutions for “thoughtcrimes,” a term borrowed from “1984,” a dystopian novel by George Orwell. Silently praying woman in Britain cited for ‘thoughtcrime’ for third time: Attorneys 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Hamas, Israel and "terrorism": If we have to use the label, at least let's use it honestly 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". 'From the river to the sea' prompts Vienna to ban pro-Palestinian protest 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". Colombia's EPM awards contract worth $254 million for Hidroituango dam 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". Turkey to work with Romania, Bulgaria against Black Sea mines 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". At least 4 killed, nearly 100 injured as train derails in India 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". Biden speaks again to Netanyahu, US eyes additional aid in wake of Hamas attack 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". US House Republican Scalise tries to round up support to become speaker 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". Analysis: Canada's Trudeau, far behind in polls, remains the Liberals' best chance 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". British nationals killed in Israel attacks -London police 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was convicted and fined on Wednesday for "discrediting" the armed forces after telling a Moscow court that Russia had descended into a totalitarian state resembling George Orwell's "1984". Canada concerned about what might happen in Gaza, cites dire conditions 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z As George Orwell put it, "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Joe Biden and Vietnam: American presidents can't tell the truth about a tragic mistake 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z What is happening in the Republican-controlled House is also reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984," the dystopian fable adapted from the totalitarian reality he observed. MAGA longs to impeach Joe Biden — and un-impeach Donald Trump. It won't work 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z At the workshop in Los Angeles, he opened his talk with a line adapted from “You and the Atom Bomb,” a 1945 essay by George Orwell. A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about the state of politics if he was alive today, his son has told the BBC. George Orwell and 1984 still relevant today, says son 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z In dissent, Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, citing the writer George Orwell, said “the majority takes the remarkable — and novel — stance that the government may force Ms. Smith to produce messages that violate her conscience.” Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Walker, an Obama appointee, called the law “positively dystopian” and quoted George Orwell’s observation that “if liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Column: In blow to anti-trans bigots, judge finds Florida's treatment ban unconstitutional 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z A copy of George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, has been returned to a US library in Oregon state after 65 years. George Orwell's 1984 returned to Portland library after 65 years 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z It reminds me of George Orwell's 'War is Peace' and 'Freedom is Slavery'. Ukraine war: Oleg Orlov faces jail time for criticising Putin's war 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z He was adopted by Eric Blair - better known by his pen name of George Orwell. George Orwell and 1984 still relevant today, says son 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z "This is China moving towards 1984," he says, referring to George Orwell's cautionary tale against totalitarianism. Chinese censors take aim at AirDrop and Bluetooth 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Both the American writer Ernest Hemingway and the English writer George Orwell fought in defense of the republic. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Many say that commercial, inspired by George Orwell's dystopian novel of the same name, paved the way for big-budget TV commercials. Analysis: Elon Musk's embrace of advertising at Tesla grabs marketers' attention 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z One of her favorite books is George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” which she noted is eerily relevant to the times. Two Florida moms are at the center of the fight against book banning in America 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Walker blocked the Individual Freedom Act or Stop Woke Act, which limited the speech of college professors, calling it "positively dystopian" in an opinion that began with a quote from George Orwell's anti-totalitarian novel "1984." Disney v. DeSantis judge called Florida governor's law 'dystopian' 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z One man, confronted with a toilet rat, weighed the lid down with George Orwell’s autobiography. Your Monday Briefing: Fighting in Sudan 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z In just a few words — "Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future" — George Orwell summed up why narratives about history can be crucial. American prophet: Nearing the end of his life, Daniel Ellsberg can't be confined to the past 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z It is a small step from there to conclude that the invaders were justified in their actions, and would be equally so in the future, the sort of political role reversal worthy of George Orwell. Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson’s unholy alliance 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Well aware of his longstanding reputation as "the most well-read man in Washington," I was interested in hearing his take on an author whose work I've associated with him in the past: George Orwell. Kari Lake, Steve Bannon and a side of Orwell: My adventures at CPAC 2023 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z If Pyongyang installs the kind of digital/biometric surveillance net pioneered by China’s Communist regime, Mr. Kim will gain a degree of social control George Orwell never dreamed of, Gen. Chun said. South Korea less battle-capable than North, top ex-general warns 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Almost everyone has heard of George Orwell’s “1984,” but he also wrote an essay that is less well-known but extremely important: “Politics and the English Language.” We could use George Orwell’s help today with the war on ‘woke’ 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z My favorite quote about writing — or anything else, for that matter — comes from George Orwell’s essay, “Politics and the English Language”: “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” Opinion | Don’t fret over antisemitism in schools. We have restorative circles. 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z George Orwell, a man of the left himself, was revolted by the servile manner in which many Western intellectuals fawned over Joseph Stalin, one of the most disgusting murderers in history. No, dictatorships are not more "efficient": See how Putin and Xi have wrecked their countries 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The attorney then invoked George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” which defined what a “thought crime” was. British court clears woman, priest of ‘thought crime’ charges for silent prayer near abortion clinic 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Campaign group Big Brother Watch said the use of Hikvision cameras went "beyond George Orwell's worst nightmare". CCTV: Welsh police and government turn off Chinese Hikvision cameras 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Forster and George Orwell set stories in British India while caricaturing South Asians or casting them in supporting roles. Review | ‘Tomb of Sand’ meditates on the cultural diffusion that permeates India 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in Alvarez, illustrated this danger by citing George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," in which a totalitarian government relied on a Ministry of Truth to criminalize dissent. George Santos: A democracy can’t easily penalize lies by politicians 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z In George Orwell’s dystopian “1984,” about a bleak, totalitarian society, the protagonist is broken when a cage filled with hungry rats is placed around his head. Rats in Seattle: They’re creepy, clever and everywhere, but there is help 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Our language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish," George Orwell wrote, "but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." The dangerous myth of the "moderate Republican" keeps pushing the media rightward 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play,” author George Orwell once wrote. Will Damar Hamlin's injury change the NFL? History suggests it's unlikely 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “Their goal is to export George Orwell’s version of ‘1984’ into the 21st century through applications like TikTok that are exploited for information gathering, surveillance and military AI applications.” Suspicions about TikTok’s link to the Chinese government spread across party lines 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984", set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars, has topped electronic bestseller lists in Russia. 'Harry & Meghan' documentary ranks as Netflix's biggest documentary debut 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “Who controls the past controls the future,” George Orwell famously wrote in “1984.” Review | ‘Treasures of Ukraine’ surveys 3,000 years of art 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Penguin has worked with celebrated authors including Sylvia Plath, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Penguin Random House boss resigns after Simon & Schuster deal fails 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z In a notorious 2009 episode, Amazon remotely deleted ebooks of George Orwell’s “1984” and “Animal Farm” from customers’ libraries without their permission after discovering the publisher lacked rights to the titles in the U.S. Column: Which last longer, ebooks or physical books? The answer may surprise you 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z George Orwell coined a term for courage like this. Op-Ed: Kyiv's answer to Putin's drones is resistance and resilience 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Soon, Republican lawmakers like Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., were calling the board a "Ministry of Truth," an apparent reference to a fictional government body that feeds people lies in George Orwell's "1984." How the Biden administration caved to Republicans on fighting election disinformation 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z “Big Brother has deemed doing your own research as a thought crime,” read a post that appeared to blend references to QAnon with George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984.” Suspect in assault at Pelosi home had posted about QAnon 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Apple’s “1984” television advertisement, inspired by George Orwell’s book, was about the freeing futuristic powers of a Mac computer; Coca-Cola’s “Share a Coke” campaign positioned the beverage as community glue. Burned Out on Your Personal Brand 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Every saint is guilty until proven innocent, George Orwell said. George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z At least some journalists, at some point in their education, read George Orwell's 1946 essay, "Politics and the English Language." Who's a "conservative"? Not these folks — the word has become meaningless 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z In less-controversial categories of books lately banned, we find writers such as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. Opinion | The book-banning crowd is back. Resist them. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Their synth and string-layered album, set over the course of one night, was littered with references to imagined worlds, from Blade Runner to George Orwell, and was broadly well received by the critics. Bastille: Why the band are making music for 'dystopian' days 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z In April, the 38-year-old wrote despairingly: "We now see trigger warnings slapped on Harry Potter. We see George Orwell's 1984 branded 'offensive and upsetting' for students to read." Michelle Donelan: New culture secretary unafraid to take on culture wars and BBC 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Long-banished literary works such as Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago,” Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” and George Orwell’s totalitarian allegory, “Animal Farm,” were published for the first time in the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev has died, Soviet Union's last leader helped end Cold War 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Off it, the game is symbolic of something else; war minus the shooting, to use George Orwell's memorable phrase. Asia Cup: India and Pakistan gear up for next cricket battle 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Does anyone except me hear the ghost of George Orwell laughing right now? All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z When Yabloko reprinted a Russian translation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Mr. Yashin wrote the introduction, warning that the “era of Big Brother” had begun in Russia. Looming Question for Putin Opponents: Can You Change Russia From Jail? 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous," George Orwell writes in "1984." The Four Horsemen of the 21st century: War, capitalism, fascism and mass death 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm is to be translated into Scots. George Orwell's Animal Farm to be translated into Scots 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z He was referencing the dystopian novel by George Orwell about a society where “Big Brother is watching you” and the “Thought Police” monitor the ideas in people’s minds. Big Tech attacks become rallying cry for GOP candidates 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z A free society that remains silent while George Orwell‘s “1984” unfolds before its very eyes will not remain free. All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z The phrase “Ministry of Truth” — a reference to George Orwell’s “1984” — has repeatedly trended online in discussions about the board. DHS pauses disinformation board, director will resign 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z When an enemy cannot be found, as George Orwell understood in "Nineteen Eighty-Four," an enemy is manufactured. Russia, the U.S. and the Ukraine war: Dance of death in an age of self-delusion 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Many on the right likened it to the Ministry of Truth from George Orwell’s book “1984.” Analysis | The tempest over DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Trump's political rallies resemble George Orwell's "six minutes of hate" from "1984," expanded to two hours or so. Trump's latest hate rally: A master class in cult mind control 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He and his followers literally live inside an alternate reality that would have impressed George Orwell, where up is down and down is up. Trump claims the "lunatic left" is "mutilating" children — as usual, the media looks away 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Aldous Huxley called it "herd-poisoning" and George Orwell said it was rendered through "Newspeak." America is united on the Ukraine war, right? Still, let's follow the money 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z For many reasons, this moment has brought renewed interest in George Orwell's classic dystopian novel "1984." Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z We call this misuse of the language Orwellian because it was George Orwell, the British journalist, critic and novelist, who wrote so clearly about it in “1984” and elsewhere. Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z In class, “I am always linking Big Brother in George Orwell’s ‘1984’ novel to Putin, both in Syria and now in Ukraine,” he said. Ukraine war recalls trauma for survivors of Aleppo siege 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z In her author’s note, Bulawayo shares how her book’s most obvious literary inspiration, George Orwell’s anti-Stalinism allegory “Animal Farm,” became a trending topic on social media in the wake of Mugabe’s ouster. Review | In ‘Glory,’ talking animals bear a striking resemblance to real-life tyrants 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z George Orwell illustrated the horrors of a totalitarian government in his novel, 1984. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In dissent, Chief Judge Timothy M. Tymkovich, citing George Orwell, said “the majority takes the remarkable — and novel — stance that the government may force Ms. Smith to produce messages that violate her conscience.” Supreme Court to Hear Case of Web Designer Who Objects to Same-Sex Marriage 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Dissenting Judge Timothy Tymkovich cited George Orwell and said the decision imposes government-approved messages on individuals, subverting “our core understandings of the First Amendment.” Supreme Court will hear another clash pitting religious rights against laws protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Has the GOP taken a page from George Orwell? Opinion | The Republican National Committee’s absurd censure 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s Big Brother would be so proud. Opinion | To learn from our history, we must first acknowledge it 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “Much as the world would like the Olympics to be devoid of politics, as George Orwell once wrote: ‘Sport is war minus the shooting.’” China less worried about global criticism these Olympics 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Sport may or may not be "war minus the shooting", as George Orwell put it. Novak Djokovic: Serbs seethe over tennis hero's entry ban 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z For all the warnings from 20th century writers like George Orwell that history would be forcibly stamped out, the graver threat may that people, offered a choice, turn their backs on it voluntarily. In a Race to Shape the Future, History Is Under New Pressure 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Normal people, who might want to toss anvils to progressives drowning in their jargon, should modify George Orwell’s axiom that “the great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” Opinion | Farewell, 2021, year of weird speaking 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z She quoted George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” to describe the prosecution’s case, saying: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Russian court abolishes country’s most prominent human rights group, Memorial 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The year she turned 10 her father, noting the date, presented her with his old copy of George Orwell’s “1984.” Petra Mayer, NPR books editor who championed fantasy and romance fiction, dies at 46 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Whatever his expertise on Marx, Mr. Xi seems to epitomize George Orwell’s totalitarian nightmare of “1984,” with its ruling party slogan: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” Opinion | With his eye on the future, Xi Jinping seizes control of the past 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z “Who controls the past controls the future,” George Orwell wrote in “1984.” Review | Why knocking down statues is a tradition around the world 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z George Orwell too was known to roam, which might be one reason why Solnit’s latest book, “Orwell’s Roses,” is, from its beautiful cover to its impassioned coda, one of her very best. What does George Orwell's garden tell us about his writing, you ask? Everything 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The longtime blogger cited George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” to illustrate how U.S. journalism feeds a culture of dependence on authority. Andrew Sullivan blasts ‘neo-Marxist’ critical race theory, gender ideology 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z It is just as pernicious and dangerous as George Orwell’s “doublethink” and the other characteristics he defined as a movement toward authoritarianism. Opinion | A frightening forecast for a crisis that has already begun 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Its name was a kind of reverse homage to the incinerator used to destroy embarrassing government files in George Orwell’s “1984.” Russ Kick, writer, editor and ‘rogue transparency activist,’ dies at 52 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z "I love George Orwell's essays and stuff like that, and I like a book of essays," he says. Phil Wang: I wouldn’t be a comic if I wasn’t mixed-race 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Epic was ready with a media campaign, including an ad titled “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite,” comparing Apple to Big Brother in George Orwell’s “1984.” Judge’s ruling may take a bite out of Apple’s App Store, but falls short of calling the iPhone maker a monopolist 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The protesters, few of whom wore masks, waved banners marked with the messages "I have my own opinion" and "Covid-84" in a reference to George Orwell's book "1984" about a totalitarian state. Police, protesters clash as thousands march against COVID curbs in Berlin 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Tolkien, George Orwell, Philip Roth and Lois Lowry, as well as children’s classics and cookbooks and lifestyle guides. Hachette to Buy Workman for $240 Million as Publishing Continues Consolidation 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z All the while, I kept thinking back to a 1945 George Orwell essay on sports I first read in high school. Atmosphere in Tokyo's Koreatown is surprisingly festive as bitter rivals play baseball 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z In his bracing 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell showed the way mushy discourse is used to mask not just empty political speech, but outright evil intent. Opinion | The Arizona election and the non-case of the missing routers 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z In the Robinhood democracy, everyone is equal, but — with apologies to George Orwell — some investors are more equal than others. Is Robinhood really democratizing finance? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z White House supporters cheered the move while critics likened the behavior to something inspired by George Orwell’s “1984.” White House admits de facto moderating Facebook, is ‘flagging problematic posts’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Are all animals equal but some more equal than others, as George Orwell wrote? Lobsters’ feelings loom large as British Parliament debates animal welfare bill 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z A reliable witness, an internationally acclaimed public intellectual, he, like George Orwell, told the truth in wildly imaginative fiction, unflinching essays and brave reportage. A reading guide to legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z He likened the pronoun lesson’s framing to thought policing in George Orwell’s "1984." Virginia county's latest blow-up is parental rights after Christian student placed in tiny room 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z So Menand opens the book with George Kennan, whose Long Telegram helped define the Cold War, and George Orwell, whose “1984” put totalitarianism at center stage. Review: Louis Menand's history of 'The Free World' -- at least according to boomers 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In Mawlamyine — known for its Buddhist pagodas and fleeting mentions, by its old name of Moulmein, in a Rudyard Kipling poem and a George Orwell essay — the protests began a week after the coup. ‘She Just Fell Down. And She Died.’ 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z In his biographical essay “Why Orwell Matters,” Christopher Hitchens quotes George Orwell on the “power of facing unpleasant facts.” Opinion | What if the former CDC director is right about the Wuhan labs? 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z He said he hadn’t seen “even a hint at violence” there but lived under controls that he compared to George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Russia’s Navalny announces start of prison hunger strike 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Tolkien, George Orwell, Robert Penn Warren, Philip Roth and Lois Lowry, as well as children’s classics and best-selling cookbooks and lifestyle guides. HarperCollins to Buy Houghton Mifflin’s Trade Publishing Unit 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Describing the dehumanizing prison surveillance in his March 15 post, Navalny said it was as if “someone upstairs” read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and then said, “Yeah, cool. Let’s do this.” Putin foe Navalny once described prison life with dark humor. Now his messages are just dark. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z In his novel 1984, George Orwell put it simply enough when he coined the slogan "war is peace" for his fictional dystopian society. POW nation: When will America free itself from war? 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z In truth, Pompeo has taken his inspiration from Churchill’s contemporary, George Orwell, who observed: “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.” Opinion | ‘Pinocchio’ Pompeo is trying to rewrite the history of the past four years 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Though an atheist, George Orwell very much agreed with the Italian astronomer that quantification is an essential attribute of objective reality. Opinion | Trump is playing an Orwellian numbers game 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z George Orwell warned of the dangers of such "intellectual cowardice" more than 70 years ago in a proposed preface to his classic novel Animal Farm. What President Biden won’t touch 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z As in so many other cases, George Orwell foresaw where power politics, unchecked, was destined to lead democratic societies. Column: Republicans have destroyed the idea of the 'loyal opposition' — and eroded democracy 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z To make his argument he takes readers on a China tour that is part George Orwell, part Aldous Huxley. Review | Surveillance, reeducation and the Office of Honesty: How China tames its people 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z And George Orwell was to refer to the tour as simply being "war minus the shooting". The Russians who came with a warning Britain wouldn't hear 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “Have I helped that process? I just wrote a song, but that’s how it works. When George Orwell wrote 1984, do you think he seriously thought all those things would happen?” Joan Armatrading: 'I want to make a heavy metal album – with lots of guitar shredding' 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Partisan media outlets set one group against another, a consumer version of what George Orwell in his novel "1984" called the "Two minutes of Hate." The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z In his classic essay, "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell attributes the explosion of euphemism in political debate and journalism to the morally contemptible project of "defending the indefensible." America's crimes against humanity aren't on the ballot this year — but they should be 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z They were heady days, with the streets of Barcelona daubed in revolutionary slogans described by another volunteer fighter, George Orwell, in Homage to Catalonia as “startling and overwhelming”. The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “Nothing,” wrote George Orwell, “is gained by teaching a parrot a new word.” Opinion | Republicans, are you tired of winning yet? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Sinclair Lewis now appear as an understatement in a world marked by horrifying political horizons — a world in which authoritarian and medical pandemics merge. Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z In the early days after Trump’s election, George Orwell’s “1984” displaced Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” atop Amazon’s bestseller list, meaning Americans were suddenly less concerned with how we got here than with where we were going. Review | The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Or Big Brother in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a symbol of external, omnipotent oppression. We need to rethink social media before it's too late. We've accepted a Faustian bargain | Jeff Orlowski 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z “Every joke is a tiny revolution,” George Orwell wrote in 1945. Opinion | To Beat Trump, Mock Him 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z They are to be treated as raw material for public education suffused with the spirit of Oceania in George Orwell’s “1984”: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” Opinion | California shows how unchecked progressives inflict progress 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z This is precisely what George Orwell described in "1984": "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." The Trump regime defends racism: At least they're being honest for once 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z To paraphrase George Orwell, the Virginia Senate apparently believes that all lives are equal, but some are more equal than others. Opinion | Reducing penalties for assaults on police officers would make all Virginians less safe 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z As George Orwell put it in one of my favorite lines: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Pence gets tangled in the flag 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z In doing so, it deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and Harry G. Frankfurt’s “On Bulls---.” It’s a brilliant dissertation on Trump’s patented brand of balderdash. Review | A deep dive into President Trump’s doublespeak and other rhetorical tricks 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z But that is the kind of up-is-down logic that echoes the rhetoric George Orwell satirized in Animal Farm. Republicans are forcing Americans to return to dangerous workplaces | David Sirota 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “All issues are political issues,”’ George Orwell wrote in 1946, and one blessing of our otherwise-doomed timeline may be that America — a stubbornly ahistoric, apolitical nation — will finally be forced to admit this to itself. When the President Shows You an Old Man Shouting ‘White Power’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Creepy shades of George Orwell color the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s recent demands that Plain Dealer and cleveland.com reporters turn over photos and recordings of “potential criminal activity” from May 30 riots in downtown Cleveland. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The film is bookended with English author Eric Blair — better known as George Orwell — writing his allegorical novella “Animal Farm,” inspired by Jones’ reporting from the Soviet Union. Review: The truth will out in muddled political thriller 'Mr. Jones' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z “It is quite true that the English are hypocritical about their Empire,” wrote George Orwell in England Your England. What black America means to Europe 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z DC’s Legends of Tomorrow The Legends land in a world reminiscent of George Orwell’s “1984,” but soon discover that things aren’t as they expected. What's on TV Tuesday: 'Dirty John' on USA; coronavirus 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z As George Orwell wrote, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Amnesia Nation: Why China Has Forgotten Its Coronavirus Outbreak 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z So were a Ukrainian assassin, a cabal of Vatican clergymen, a Soviet long jumper, and George Orwell. Olympic espionage: US sprinter Dave Sime, the CIA and the 1960 Games 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Mr Z and I spent the first couple of hours of a lockdown morning exactly as our enemies would imagine, with him making me guess George Orwell’s measure of a perfect pub. It is not just loved ones I miss, but the joy of hanging out with casual friends | Zoe Williams 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Has this, the slogan of the party governing Oceania in George Orwell’s “1984,” supplanted “All the news that’s fit to print” as the Times’s credo? Opinion | The ‘1619 Project’ is filled with slovenliness and ideological ax-grinding 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The CIA’s most infamous meddling with literature concerned Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon and George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. ‘Rockers and spies’ – how the CIA used culture to shred the iron curtain 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z During the London Blitz, George Orwell wrote about the railings coming down from the capital’s private squares as the army took charge of all spare iron. Tokyo 2021 is golden chance to close Big Sport circus and give the Olympics back | Barney Ronay 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Another time, Mr. Cheng discussed George Orwell with a young officer, who sought to distance his work from what is described in “1984.” Coronavirus Outrage Spurs China’s Internet Police to Action 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z “George Orwell’s 1984 is, to some extent, here. These are scary developments.” Exclusive: Norway wealth fund could blacklist four major climate culprits 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Piper, a college freshman, is from a conservative, evangelical family in the suburbs of Cedar Rapids and said he had just finished reading George Orwell’s novel “1984.” Iowa’s Republicans Unite for Trump (Romney Holdouts Aside) 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell famously imagined a life where everything is monitored - not only in public spaces, but in people's homes. Do you know who's watching and listening to you? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The Archives employees involved might be asked to wear “Winston Smith” name tags, the name of the lead character in George Orwell’s “1984.” Opinion | The National Archives took an Orwellian approach to history 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The book also displays a lively erudition: when Deakin describes a swim off the virtually unpopulated island of Jura, in the Scottish Hebrides, he notes that George Orwell retreated there to write “1984.” The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Appearance: George Orwell’s wife letting him get off with his ex-girlfriend. Nineteen Eighty-Phwoar: the truth about George Orwell's romantic 'arrangements' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z George Orwell set me straight on that point. Opinion | The Book That Changed My Life 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z It is an idea George Orwell understood perfectly. Do you know who's watching and listening to you? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Among a list of top priority pages that includes James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, George Orwell, and Marcel Proust, there wasn’t a single page devoted to a woman. The sum of what? On gender, visibility, and Wikipedia 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s “1984,” a fictional condemnation of totalitarianism, is widely read because it is considered a classic of world literature. China Blocks American Books as Trade War Simmers 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s 1984 satirised such regimes with a dystopian vision of a society that was spied on day and night by the all-seeing and all-powerful Big Brother. CCTV installed at Karl Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z “Quotations are generally all downside and no upside — unless you’re Mark Twain or George Orwell or Lydia Davis.” The Right Way to Close Out an Email. (Skip That Inspirational Quote.) 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four,” George Orwell wrote in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The lies have it: Republicans abandon truth in Trump impeachment defence 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Republicans flexed their anger and outrage, with Chabot calling the impeachment something to make George Orwell proud and the “the most tragic mockery of justice in the history of this nation.” Key takeaways from the marathon impeachment vote in the House Judiciary Committee 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Say “Animal Farm,” and many literary Americans will think of George Orwell’s allegorical novella about farm animals rebelling against totalitarianism in post-revolution Russia. Opinion | I am thankful for one hero dog, two pardoned turkeys and ending animal cruelty 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z So George Orwell opened his novel “1984,” on a weird and chilling note. Opinion | Across China, the clocks are striking thirteen. The people of Hong Kong hear it. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Now he likens the MEK camp in Manze to Animal Farm, George Orwell's critique of the Stalinist era in the USSR. The Iranian opposition fighters who can't think about sex 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z “George Orwell: His Enduring Legacy” which runs to April, features posters and material related to “1984” and his 1945 allegorical novella, “Animal Farm.” George Orwell New Mexico exhibit bares ‘doublespeak’ legacy 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Morrison claimed that “progressivism” — which he labeled a “new-speak type term,” invoking George Orwell — intends “to get in under the radar, but at its heart would deny the liberties of Australians.” Australian prime minister, a Trump fan, pledges to outlaw climate boycotts: 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Like George Orwell's Animal Farm before it, I Want To Leave This Book! features creatures that clearly represent human players in a real-life drama. The lighter side of the (former) Brexit deadline 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Author George Orwell reported on the living conditions of the miners here in a 1937 social history, “The Road to Wigan Pier.” Can Boris Johnson win the support of Labour voters who want Brexit? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z According to George Orwell, “All revolutions are failures, but they are not all the same failure.” How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday likened China’s treatment of more than one million Uighur Muslims to George Orwell’s “1984” novel, saying the Communist Party was detaining and abusing them in internment camps. Pompeo says Orwell's '1984' coming to life in China's Xinjiang region 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Behind them all looms the “never-sleeping ear” of George Orwell’s telescreen in Nineteen Eighty-Four: “You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard.” 'Alexa, are you invading my privacy?' – the dark side of our voice assistants 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But we are mistaken if we immediately think of George Orwell. 200 years before Orwell, a German naturalist prophesied surveillance capitalism 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z One thing I always meditate on is how shallow my understanding of George Orwell’s “1984,” and the idea of propaganda in general, was when I was a kid. Improvising a Laptop Recorder and Chewing Gum at the Same Time 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z This gave Koestler, like his contemporaries Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell, and Albert Camus, a kind of authority that no novelist approaches today. The Desperate Plight Behind “Darkness at Noon” 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z An old George Orwell tip for when you are nearly starving is to eat so much garlic that for hours you feel as if you have just eaten. How to make the perfect packed lunch – for toddlers, millennials and the middle-aged 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z That is China’s aspiration with “digital Leninism,” an application of science through manipulative technologies that neither Churchill nor his contemporary, George Orwell, anticipated. Opinion | Hong Kong’s heroic dissent might be the decade’s most important development 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z "The View" host Joy Behar responded by suggesting that every day under Trump was like "1984" -- the George Orwell novel in which the government regularly lies to its people with brazen propaganda. Stephen King compares his new horror novel on detained children to Trump's border enforcement 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z When George Orwell described the "Ministry of Truth" in his novel 1984 he used the University of London's Senate House as his model. When truth trumped propaganda in wartime 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z George Orwell touched on the point in “Politics and the English Language,” about the relationship between the way people think and the way they speak and write. Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z As George Orwell wrote: “No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” Is the political novel dead? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z In The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell credited the ubiquity of much-loved fish and chips as one of the factors in averting revolution. Where did all the cod go? Fishing crisis in the North Sea 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The first dystopian novels that gave me chills were in English lit class: George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” Review: In Juli Zeh's 'Empty Hearts,' the high price of moral numbness becomes clear 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Authors who spoke of dystopian futures and authoritarian regimes, like George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, were particular favourites. Russia’s ‘Tiananmen teen’ protester on front line 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z There was an outcry – George Orwell died of TB. Marianne Williamson: can love beat Trump? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z At the time of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, there were virtually none in the UK. Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Of course, all representatives would be equal, but 50 members would be more equal than the others, as explained by George Orwell. Opinion | Small states, big states and high stakes for voters 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z In his novel about a fictional totalitarian regime, 1984, George Orwell memorably wrote that one of the regime’s mottos is: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Trump is on an Orwellian mission to redefine human rights | Michael H Fuchs 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Burmese Days by George Orwell The sweet sibilance of the title alone makes this a compulsory choice. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Quoting George Orwell, the TBN host wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Mike Rowe: Colin Kaepernick’s Betsy Ross objections ‘unpersuasive,’ ‘completely void of logic’ 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The Orwell Award is named after Animal Farm author George Orwell, who was a scholarship pupil at Eton. Eton to offer 12 free sixth form places 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z But Schulman also reminded me of George Orwell, who joined the Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity to fight against fascism until he was wounded in the throat by a sniper’s bullet. Spanish literature animates the ghosts of its embattled history 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z In the dystopian world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the government of Oceania aims to achieve thought control through the restriction of language. Decoding the Language of Neurons 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Pirate copies of George Orwell’s Burmese Days are a staple of those stalls. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z In his essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell offers a handful of rules for writing more lucidly — and, therefore, more honestly. Opinion | Our society has rules. Thankfully, John Roberts knows when to break them. 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Moore was presented with a folio edition of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, signed by Richard Blair, George Orwell’s son. Suzanne Moore of the Guardian wins Orwell prize for journalism 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z “I do not think this is overly cautious. If we read books by George Orwell and we read histories about communist parties, of course this is not overly cautious,” said Leung. Masks, cash and apps: How Hong Kong’s protesters find ways to outwit the surveillance state 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z While times have changed, the things that worried George Orwell haven’t changed at all. Why ‘1984’ is still relevant today — but not for the reason you may expect 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z His favorite essayist was George Orwell, whose leftist politics were accompanied by a clear-eyed assessment of the totalitarian horrors that can flow from dogmas on the left or the right. Perspective | The Red Scare targeted my family. America hasn’t shaken its demons yet. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z On social media, we’ve seen what happens to people who refuse to use what George Orwell would call Newspeak, or even dare to use forbidden phrases. Microsoft uses artificial intelligence to bind users to its definition of ‘inclusive language’ 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z When an entire story is metaphorical, focussed on a single surreal image, it’s helpful that individual sentences possess the windowpane transparency that George Orwell advocated as a prose ideal. Science Fiction Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z And recall the last of George Orwell’s famous six rules: ‘Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.’ Don't ditch the adverb, the emoji of writing | Gary Nunn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z They include George Orwell’s infamous list of suspect crypto -communist sympathisers, but also show he himself was under special branch surveillance. 'Ma’amageddon': secret plans for Queen's nuclear address revealed 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Barskova says that the language around the partnership is part Russian dystopian author Andrei Platonov, part George Orwell: “Perfectly smooth speech devoid of meaning but with the word ‘ethical’ appearing in every sentence.” Hampshire College, a Child of the Sixties, Faces Its “Visioning Problem” 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But nobody around me seemed to recognize the George Orwell quote; they all assumed that I was, in fact, complementing the president by offering my own version of the Reagan-era slogan Peace through strength. Fear and loathing at CPAC 2019, or why I yelled at a fascist and regretted it 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z There is no shortage of artists from Martin Buber and George Orwell to James Baldwin, who warned us that this dystopian era was fast approaching. Michael Cohen's testimony: A dark spectacle, and a severe indictment of America's political culture 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Each day, the hero of George Orwell’s “1984” “corrects” old newspapers to make sure that the information is in still accord with the current Party line. Opinion | The new censors won’t delete your words — they’ll drown them out 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z “Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent,” George Orwell wrote, of Gandhi. How Close Should an Activist Icon Get to Power? An Interview with Malala Yousafzai 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z George Orwell lamented the tendency to overlay classical names on common English flowers. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z No one captured a nightmare world based on falsehood better than George Orwell in his classic “1984,” a dystopian novel published in 1949. In our new post-truth era, the way we view reality is more important than ever 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Users voiced privacy concerns, comparing the measure to computer chips inserted in brains and the George Orwell novel “1984.” Backlash at Chinese university shows limits to surveillance 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Users voiced privacy concerns, comparing the measure to computer chips inserted in brains and the George Orwell novel "1984." Backlash at Chinese university shows limits to surveillance 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Put all of this together and what you’re likely to come up with is the American version of George Orwell's famed formulation in his novel "1984": "war is peace." Why American leaders persist in waging losing wars 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z George Orwell was one of truth’s Cassandras, but he tended to relate the rise of authoritarianism not to a dogmatic objectivity, but to the advance of relativism. Orwell was right: free speech is important but it is not enough | David Dwan 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z These days, our global political alliances seem to shift with remarkable rapidity, as if we were actually living in George Orwell’s "1984." Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump: How Muslims became the enemy 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “We’re all trapped in a badly written dystopian novel. Trump is either a character right out of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ or a ‘Saturday Night Live’ joke that doesn’t need rewriting. Cultural Divide: Books, poems and the Doors inspire liberal women in Virginia against Trump and conservatives - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z George Orwell titled a regular column he wrote for a British newspaper in the mid-1940s “As I Please.” Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi chose to tell the truth. It’s part of the reason he’s beloved. 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z George Orwell gave this piece of advice its epigram: “Good prose is like a windowpane.” How to write the perfect sentence 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z There are quotes about truth and justice from George Orwell, Reinhold Niebuhr and Mark Twain. Opinion | Money Talks. Will the G.O.P. Listen? 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Other contributors include the author George Orwell, who worked for the publication during the 1940s. US journalist to revive Labour left magazine Tribune 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Try reading George Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” while visiting Catalonia. Opinion | The West may be sleepwalking into another catastrophe 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z He spent more than two months there with them, talking about political theory and reading books such as George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” Special Report: Dangerous News - How two young reporters shook Myanmar 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z George Orwell gets quoted too liberally these days, but, as the national security expert David Priess pointed out, these statements were Orwellian in the extreme. How to Counter Donald Trump’s War on the Media 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it,” George Orwell wrote, in “Freedom of the Park.” All That’s Left Is the Vote 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Echoes of a chilling line in George Orwell’s “1984” were unmistakable: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Opinion | Is this the best Giuliani’s got? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In 1984, George Orwell wrote, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” Trump tells supporters, 'What you're seeing ... is not what's happening' 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z George Orwell, fighting there too, noticed that Stalinists were killing not only fascists but also democrats and fellow socialists, not in order to defend Spain's republican freedom but to advance its subservience to Moscow. Donald Trump’s Helsinki sellout, ranked among the biggest sellouts of history 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z George Orwell conjured up a totalitarian regime where Ignorance Is Strength, but he surely never conceived of this. Trump outdoes Orwell in role as Moscow's Agent Orange | Richard Wolffe 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z All of it reminded us of Chapter 8 of George Orwell’s brilliant “Animal Farm.” Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Arkansas newspapers 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The biggest insight in George Orwell’s 1984 was not about the role of surveillance in totalitarian regimes, but rather the primacy of language. How to fix Big Tech? We need the right language to describe it, first | Marc DaCosta 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z The Orwell Prize rewards the writing that comes closest to achieving English writer George Orwell's ambition to "make political writing into an art". Rapper Loki wins Orwell book prize 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z This is what George Orwell noticed about the authoritarian brutalists: They don’t use words to illuminate the complexity of reality; they use words to eradicate the complexity of reality. The rise of the amnesty thugs 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z As it happened, Aaron had taken with him to Afghanistan a copy of George Orwell’s “1984.” The Wounds of the Drone Warrior 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z A close reader of George Orwell, he modeled that first essay and the book that grew out of it, “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,” on Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London.” Appraising Anthony Bourdain, so often a teller of unappetizing truths 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z George Orwell used “We” as a blueprint for “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. An eerie dystopian prophecy by a disillusioned Bolshevik 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The same is true of George Orwell, who was not afraid to offend, or change. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z George Orwell escaped to a remote Scottish island to created his final masterpiece - the dystopian classic 1984. The island where George Orwell created 1984 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z George Orwell is a kind of lodestar for me. Lawrence Wright: ‘It’s difficult to escape the Texas stereotype’ 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell wrote. Opinion | Ryan and Comey made the same mistake: They thought Clinton would win 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z One hears George Orwell whispering, “I told you so.” Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King might be controversial, but he’s no terrorist 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Particularly skeptical was author George Orwell, who wrote that the tour generated “fresh animosity on both sides. ” Column: World Cup offers chance for respite from Russia heat 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The issue was so contentious that author George Orwell wrote an 11-point guide on how to make the perfect cup of tea. Does it matter how you put jam on a scone? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z As George Orwell wrote, "To see what is right in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle." A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The name Yuan Shikai, a Qing dynasty warlord who unsuccessfully tried to restore monarch to China, was also banned as were the titles of two George Orwell books, 1984 and Animal Farm. Ce*sored! China bans letter N (briefly) from internet as Xi Jinping extends grip on power 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “This may well result in a web of totalitarian control the likes of which not even Aldous Huxley or George Orwell could have imagined,” he said. George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s likely a happy middle ground that would protect the biggest official Olympic sponsors — some paying $200 million for the privilege — without going all George Orwell on us. Inside Sports Business: Olympic athletes to face social-media restrictions in February 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z In “1984”, George Orwell coined the term “doublethink”, the ability to believe two contradictory things. Why the oil price is so high 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z George Orwell did that in his 1945 allegorical tale “Animal Farm.” Opinion | ‘Animal Farm’ hits pretty close to home these days 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The other day while paging through a collection of George Orwell's writing, I was startled by his angry dismissal of fellow writers Stephen Spender and W.H. As artists fall into disgrace, must their art be consigned to oblivion? – LA Times 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z George Orwell was not joking when he said that those who control the past control the future. We laugh at Russian propaganda. But Hollywood history is just as fake | Simon Jenkins 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z I mean pig in the best sense — that of the most intelligent animals on the farm, and the ones George Orwell selected to lead all other animals in “Animal Farm.” Opinion | President Trump is a pig. In the best sense of the word. 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Ward is also responsible for the “tiny train world” debacle, a parody of George Orwell’s 1984 that made it into The Guardian. There is no ‘gorilla channel’ book excerpt about Trump 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z They played Chelsea, Cardiff City, Arsenal and Rangers, the last two matches so rancorous that they inspired George Orwell to write his famous essay The Sporting Spirit. From Korea to Russia, 2018 set to show again that sport is politics by other means | Andy Bull 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Wells and George Orwell, carried on a lively exchange over this very issue. H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their Debate Whether Science Is Humanity's Best Hope Continues Today 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z George Orwell would chuckle at neutrality proponents who doublethink a free and open internet through regulations. 2018: You Read It Here First 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Staff, including the writer George Orwell, made regular radio broadcasts from the building during the war. The mystery of the baby in the box 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z They both liked the book “1984” by George Orwell, each said. The One Claim That Rodchenkov, Doping Whistle-Blower, Retracts 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z George Orwell warned us and, while his timeline was askew, this digital pill would scare even that futuristic visionary. First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’ 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Nearly four decades after Wells, George Orwell was born in 1903 to a British civil servant in India. H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their Debate Whether Science Is Humanity's Best Hope Continues Today 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z From Tuesday a statue of novelist George Orwell is to adorn the exterior of New Broadcasting House, a few minutes from where Orwell worked as a radio producer in World War Two. Would Orwell want to adorn the BBC? 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z "I think it is a good start and good that it is voluntary. I think a lot of folks are worried about 1984, George Orwell and all that," he laughs. Is health care ready for routine DNA screening? A massive new trial will find out 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it,” George Orwell wrote in a 1945 essay. Analysis | The Daily 202: The corrosion of support for First Amendment principles started before Trump. He’s supercharged it. 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z It is against this political backdrop that Williams argues the fixation in recent years with the surveillance state fictionalised by George Orwell may have been misplaced. 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z "Situations like that where the government is telling you you can’t list ‘love’ as an ingredient, because it might be deceptive, just feels so silly," he told Bloomberg News, calling the response "so George Orwell." The Government Has Spoken: "Love" Is Not a Food Ingredient 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Back in 1940, George Orwell oversaw Indian languages, including "Hindustani and Marathi", as part of the Indian section of the BBC's Eastern Service. BBC to launch new Indian services 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered. Analysis | The Daily 202: The reading list that helped Hillary Clinton cope 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In the book, What Happened, the former Democratic presidential candidate draws parallels between Trump’s “war on truth” and the Soviet Union and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Tracking Trump: Clinton warns of dystopia and Trump pivots on Daca 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Hillary Clinton uses her new memoir to draw parallels between Donald Trump’s “war on truth” and the Soviet Union and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Hillary Clinton's new memoir compares Trump's 'war on truth' to Orwell's 1984 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z He also — and I’m apparently the first one he’s told this to — plans to emulate his “all-time literary hero,” George Orwell, in making the transition from nonfiction to fiction, focusing on extremism rather than totalitarianism. Former Islamist radical Maajid Nawaz on why the SPLC has labeled him an "anti-Muslim extremist" 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z So, channeling George Orwell, Justice says the subsidy is not a subsidy, it is a “homeland security incentive.” Opinion | Trump is a novice protectionist 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Some may see this as a pell-mell rush to replicate George Orwell’s “1984,” in which “every statue and street and building has been renamed.” Opinion | Today, Stonewall Jackson. Tomorrow, Michael, Reggie and Jackson Hole 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z George Orwell’s novel from 1936 has plenty to say about austerity and “selling out” The lessons of “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” for millennials 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Christopher Isherwood was an obvious influence on his so-called Berlin period; George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four inspired much of his classic album Diamond Dogs. Strange fascination: The best David Bowie books 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z She suggested another influential part-time Mancunian, who worked at The Manchester Evening News for three years: “Why not George Orwell?” A Communist Icon Toppled in Ukraine Is Restored. In England. 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z George Orwell’s advice: “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” How to Conquer the Admissions Essay 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z “To see what is in front of one’s nose,” George Orwell wrote, “needs a constant struggle.” Opinion | Trump is something the nation did not know it needed 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z “George Orwell in the 21st Century” Learn why Orwell scholar Andrew Rubin is not at all surprised that everything Orwellian seems new again. D.C. community calendar, July 13-19, 2017 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Her influences drew on Puritanical New England, as well as other well-known dystopian novels such as George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. 11 books to read while you wait for season 2 of Handmaid’s Tale 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z In light of such developments, it seems a good moment to recall something George Orwell wrote in his essay “England Your England,” published in January of 1941, at the height of the Blitz. After Manchester, the U.K. Weighs Security and Freedoms 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z This was the phenomenon George Orwell described so unforgettably in his dystopian novel “1984“. Down the memory hole: Establishing “1984” for today’s Trump-filled world 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z He has quoted Maroon 5 lyrics, cited the writings of George Orwell and said he is being persecuted because of his Catholic faith. ‘Anyone . . . with a pulse’: How a Russia-friendly adviser found his way into the Trump campaign 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Winston Churchill and George Orwell lived on different sides of a vast divide. New book ‘Churchill and Orwell’ finds the iron core of both men relevant in today’s world 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z In the era of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Jean Stafford, and Christopher Isherwood, she announced the “emptiness of current fiction.” The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z In George Orwell’s “1984,” the proles are spared a life of constant surveillance, while higher-ranking members of society are exposed to Big Brother’s watchful eye. How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z For scope and depth, he has no equal and George Orwell, among many, learned some important lessons here. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 66 – London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851) 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Much of what happened on the streets during the May days is well known thanks to George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, but not why it happened. George Orwell’s Spanish civil war memoir is a classic, but is it bad history? 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z As George Orwell wrote, patriotism stems from “devotion to a particular place and to a particular way of life.” Opinion | Why we don’t call it Nationalists’ Day 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z He abides by George Orwell’s rule of thumb: the fancier the restaurant, the more people who have dripped sweat into your food. The Most Adventurous Eater in America 2009-11-01T04:00:00Z Many commentators, myself included, warned about the dangers of democratic erosion, and sales of George Orwell’s “1984” soared. The Keystone Kops in the White House 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Blair resigned while back in England on leave, and published several books under his assumed name, George Orwell. Did George Orwell shoot an elephant? His 1936 'confession' – and what it might mean 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The prize is named after George Orwell, whose dystopian classic 1984 re-entered the book charts earlier this year. Electrifying feminist sci-fi novel makes political prize longlist - BBC News 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In response to the increasingly authoritarian tones of the executive branch we plumbed the history of Europe in the twentieth century for clues and turned to the writings of Czeslaw Milocz and George Orwell. Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The transformation of actors into thugs condemning those who don’t conform is something George Orwell would understand, and they are in the same free-fall as their beloved Democratic Party. Liberal establishment is failing 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Gordon Bowker is the author of "George Orwell," a biography of the writer, and has written articles for the the Daily Beast, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Opinion | Five myths about George Orwell 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Fake George Orwell quotes are a specialty in left-wing social media circles. Did they really say that? - BBC News 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Propaganda will do that to you, as George Orwell warned us all in 1984. Mike Flynn might be done – but Trump's nightmare has just begun | Richard Wolffe 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z “Kitchen Confidential,” which was excerpted in this magazine, was inspired by “Down and Out in Paris and London,” in which George Orwell describes chefs as “the most workmanlike class, and the least servile.” Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z As George Orwell taught us, how people talk offers a clue about how they think and what they value. Opinion | The issues all Trump foes can agree on 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Despite readers reaching for Hannah Arendt and George Orwell, strictly speaking, the comparison with fascism and communism isn’t true. Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter | Nick Cohen 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The pretentious diction, dying metaphors and padded sentences would make George Orwell somersault in his grave. Letters from Africa: Nigeria's art of flowery language - BBC News 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Whether the Queen took the precaution of stripping the Ceaușescus’ guest room bare before they showed up, leaving only the wallpaper, the water jug, and a copy of George Orwell’s “1984,” we cannot know. Theresa May’s American Adventure 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Today, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is No 1 on Amazon.com, while Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism has been selling at 16 times its normal rate since December. 'It will be called Americanism': the US writers who imagined a fascist future 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Sales of the George Orwell book rose after US president Donald Trump's adviser said the White House was issuing "alternative facts" over the size of the crowds at his inauguration. George Orwell's 1984 heading for Broadway - BBC News 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z “It’s basically the upside-down world right now, and the kind of dialogue coming out of these guys sounds like George Orwell,” Mr. Cameron said. James Cameron: ‘We’re the biggest freakin’ idiot civilization in history’ 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Sales have also risen drastically for George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984,” which shot to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list this week. Uneasy About the Future, Readers Turn to Dystopian Classics 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z I have, I’m afraid, a terrible confession to make: I have never been a huge fan of George Orwell’s “1984.” Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Leaders of all sorts have used censorship to grind some personal axe, to deny George Orwell’s core principle of free speech, “the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. Post-truth politics will be debunked by online facts | Simon Jenkins 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z “Alternative facts is a George Orwell phrase,” said Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty. Sales of George Orwell's 1984 surge after Kellyanne Conway's 'alternative facts' 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z As George Orwell warned, we need to choose words attentively and preserve semantic distinctions. Opinion | ‘Populist’ is the wrong word for Trump. Here’s the right one. 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In a famous 1946 essay, George Orwell recommended “starting at the verbal end” to change the course of events. Donald Trump is changing our language. We need a vocabulary of resistance | Michelle Moyd and Yuliya Komska 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z As George Orwell said, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” Obama’s foreign policy was error after error 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z It also shows how much Astor helped friends in need, such as George Orwell. Readers’ books of the year 2016 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z George Orwell said, probably apocryphally, that some ideas are so absurd that only intellectuals believe them, and maybe there’s a 2016 election corollary. North Carolina’s Iron Curtain 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z “Ignorance is Strength” is the third and most powerful slogan chiseled into George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984. Do you care about the truth? Help the Guardian sort fake news from reality 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Journalism’s George Orwell prize could be awarded, at long last, to George Orwell. A Wonder Woman at the UN? How about a real one? | Catherine Bennett 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z In a 1946 essay, George Orwell wrote that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” Donald Trump’s War on Science 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z |
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