| 单词 | 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 “If you don't read his journalism”—a near miss—“you can't say you know Orwell.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 Acton”—this, apparently, Harold Acton, who was also in Paris then and a friend to both Orwell and Julian—“disagrees. But I think he is not a man to be trusted.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I suppose I did let slip that I like Orwell. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z George Orwell once wrote that whenever a critic uses the word human, he usually renders it meaningless. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z 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 As she sets out to reevaluate Orwell’s work in light of his horticultural and pastoral interests, she finds a man who is as concerned with his vegetable patch as he is with his writing career. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Only later did I start to appreciate the real profundity of Orwell’s insights, laid out so succinctly in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Orwell based “Animal Farm” on historical events, turning them into allegory, and may have actually named the farmer in the novel after Gareth Jones. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z 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 The Swift that emerges from these pages is not the gloomy ogre described by the likes of Thackeray and Orwell. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Orwell's farm animals do not merely stand in for people, they increase our peopleness, and we feel he must have remembered Jeremy Bentham's fundamental question about animals. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z "His last writings, from 1949, were the sketch for a novel called The Smoking Room Story about a character called Curly Johnson who, like Orwell, was returning from Burma," says Taylor. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 Orwell went home a staunch member of the anti-communist left, unalterably opposed to imperialism and fascism but committed to calling out lies on all sides. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Orwell’s reflections on the revolution in Spain, as told in chapter 5 of the first edition of Homage to Catalonia, are straightforward. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Strunk and White had “a tenuous grasp of grammar,” and George Orwell contradicted himself. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The production matches Orwell’s suddenly hot 68-year-old book with two rising stars of the British theater, both of whom came of age well after the year of its prophetic title. With ’1984’ on Broadway, Thoughtcrime Hits the Big Time 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z “Animal Farm,” published in 1945, was Orwell’s opening fictional salvo in his battle for inconvenient truths, an allegory that suggests how the tyrannical one-party state Oceania in “1984” came into being. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Rather than identify ‘Orwell’ as like them, we do better to identify a coming generation of journalists as like him. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Sitting at the Orwell table, Smith closes his eyes and attempts to absorb any energy left behind by his favorite scribe. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Orwell was writing at a time when governments, whether the totalitarian dictatorships of Russia and China, or the democracies of western Europe and America, ruled with near absolute power. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z Orwell, like those Russians, was a master of observation who turned inward, with this book, to expose through primitive storytelling the impossible hurts of which humans are capable. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z 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 If Orwell were around now, he would have been baa-ed at, perhaps, though by whom is less certain. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z “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 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 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 In that brilliant critique, Orwell casts the blame for political corruption widely, and he insists that we all bear a responsibility to resist it by thinking and especially by writing more clearly. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z It is this side of him that Solnit brings into focus in “Orwell’s Roses,” a side, she asserts, that is eclipsed by our image of him as a dark prophet driven by political rage. What George Orwell’s Roses Tell Us About His Politics 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z 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 It was quite new in its optical, even if you may compare it to Orwell's works - a bit nearer to Strindberg's and Ibsen's tones, those of the eternal 'enemy of the people'. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z 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 Two years after Edward Snowden gift-wrapped the greatest offering to prog-rock paranoiacs since Orwell, Muse’s reliance on reheated Cold War leftovers is baffling. Muse meets ‘Drones’: More prog-rock paranoid fantasies 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 It is Orwell's paranoia that gives his writing its power and urgency, and which has kept it alive. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z I’m currently reading Thomas Ricks’s “Churchill and Orwell. Graham Greene’s memoir, “Ways of Escape,” is a book I’ve read many times but keep coming back to. Anthony Bourdain: By the Book 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z An honest speaker would do well to keep words and sentences short and concrete, and to avoid clichés, as Orwell advises. Double-plus effective 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z 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 Orwell encapsulated those fears in his 1946 essay "The Prevention of Literature". George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z Professor Davison discovered, however, that the equation was a misprint and that what Orwell originally wrote was “2 + 2 = 5,” which comported with Big Brother’s Newspeak. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “For Orwell, the truth mattered even, or perhaps especially, when it was inconvenient,” Lynskey writes. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Orwell and Dos Passos were scarred, their ideals battered by reality. The opening act 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z But where Orwell spent the best part of two months on his journey and nine months writing it up, I only have three days. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z The Orwell estate later withdrew the film from circulation. The Children of ‘1984’: Dystopia Down the Decades 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z A giant image of Orwell, a far more benign but still exacting Big Brother, gazed down at the sweltering guests from behind the podium. Orwell prize gets political 2012-05-24T15:50:01Z 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 And speaking of George Orwell, this art-language exegesis is hardly groundbreaking. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z Orwell had an abiding interest in the countryside, rural life and growing his own food. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z All animals may be equal, to borrow from Orwell, but only because of their instrumental value to humans. One Indelible Scene: A Donkey’s Escape in ‘EO’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z 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 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 In defence of the Revolution and against those who had betrayed it, Orwell found his voice. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z No, Orwell's been important to me since I was really young. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth,” wrote Orwell in 1946. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z George Orwell, of the essays but not so much the novels. Michael Lewis: By the Book 2014-04-10T14:00:01Z 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 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 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 The Jay Z elevator scene, in particular, suggests almost perfectly the odd, growing overlap between celebrity culture and the surveillance state, between TMZ and the NSA, Warhol and Orwell. Donald Sterling, Jay Z find that private space is open to scandal 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The New Statesman and Nation's review said of Orwell: "The honest Tory must face what he tells and implies, and the honest Socialist must face him, too." Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z One had wondered, after Hari, if the Orwell prize would make a habit of honouring plagiarists. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Leftish writers – whether careerists such as Spender and Koestler or apostate one-time sympathisers such as Orwell – made good propagandists. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z Orwell's memories of his time at the BBC were not fond. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “When I was born, Orwell was 23; when he died, I was that age,” Professor Davison wrote in a brief memoir on the Orwell Society website. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z With respect to novels best suited for understanding the coronavirus, perhaps this period can best be characterized, in authorial shorthand, as Camus meets Orwell meets Kafka. Letters to the Editor 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 How can you leave George Orwell off the British...well, any....list? Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Orwell's work, in my view, challenges us to resist permitting leaders to engage in totalitarian behavior, regardless of political affiliation. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z 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 Nor is there much of Orwell in the Hitchens who became a Beltway gossip columnist, and later an amanuensis of the Bush administration. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z As long ago as 1946, Orwell said that English was "in a bad way". George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z There are drawings by Orwell in “Diaries” of lathes, plows, drills, scythes, fishing nets, stirrups and charcoal braziers. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z More than Hemingway perhaps, and along with two other belly-to-earth Americans, Miller and Faulkner, Sinclair, Steinbeck, and Orwell were committed to trying to tell the truth about ordinary lives. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z "Let us simply say," Orwell wrote, "that this control is despotic and, to put it plainly, self-interested." The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z “It was,” Orwell wrote, “one of the things that helped to console people for the boredom of being bombed.” DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z But Odyr, using a bright palette, has fully adapted what Orwell called “a fairy tale” satirizing Stalin — and the result is elegant and heartbreaking. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z 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 Orwell's novels are marked by their rich detailing of taste, touch and especially smell. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z But Hawley earns Big Brother’s special smile for invoking Orwell’s name at the very moment he’s committing the slick linguistic abuses that Orwell so memorably demonstrated in “1984.” Perspective | Conservatives crying ‘Orwell’ are downright Orwellian 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z While Orwell was a man of the left, the novel was seized on as a useful cultural weapon against the Soviet Union. The Children of ‘1984’: Dystopia Down the Decades 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z By the time the book appeared in its distinctive tangerine soft cover, Orwell was in Spain fighting fascism. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z "It's almost impossible to imagine," says Orwell's biographer, the novelist and critic DJ Taylor. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 As we celebrate the first Orwell Day this week, it's irresistible to play the game of "what if"? What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Soon after senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that the administration was issuing “alternative facts,” Orwell’s classic novel spiked to No. 1 on Amazon. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Eliot, a friendly acquaintance of Orwell's, was a political and cultural conservative, not to say reactionary. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “He was a super scholarly sleuth,” said Prof. Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Using a tablet and his memory, Hennegan recently ushered a group that included Smith, myself and a dozen of others starting at The Wheatsheaf, a traditional pub once patronized by Orwell, Burgess and Thomas. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z 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 In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell discussed the blight of “dying metaphors” — those well-worn phrases that allow us to mouth off without paying much heed. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Orwell did not specify in that passage what he meant by either totalitarianism or democratic socialism, but some of his other works clarify how he understood those terms. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Around this fateful opening, the creators invent a postmodern frame, inspired in part by the Orwell appendix in which the principles of Newspeak, the heavily redacted language of Oceania, are elucidated. Orwell's '1984' has never seemed so current and terrifying as on the Broad Stage 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z 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 Because Eileen was clearly the bait, she stayed at the hotel while Orwell slept rough. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z In fact, the distances she needs to bridge are far greater than Orwell's – Wigan miners weren't to old Etonians as hill tribes are to metropolitan Indians – and her writing is more prolix and melodramatic. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z By undertaking such a task, Orwell was choosing to involve himself in a complex and bitter argument about the Bolshevik revolution in Russia: then a far more controversial issue than it is today. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “It’s like an Orwell idea, keep the masses quiet,” he said. Simon and Sondheim Talk Shop at Joint Appearance 2013-12-04T16:57:23Z To paraphrase Orwell, the English of the world wide web – loose, informal, and distressingly dyspeptic – is not really the kind people want to read in a book, a magazine, or even a newspaper. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z Hemingway glancing away from the Idaho hills, Orwell unaware of the cigarette in his mouth, and Dylan tapping obliviously as Joan Baez serenades him. In praise of … typewriters 2012-11-20T23:01:48Z The book was written by Orwell as a scathing commentary on Stalin's Russia. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z This might be a good time to note that these diaries are probably not Orwell for beginners. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z Regardless, by aiming the long, piercing gaze of this metaphor at the aftereffects of European imperialism in Africa, Bulawayo is really out-Orwelling Orwell. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Not, it must be said, that Orwell really needs the publicity. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z “You have got to choose between liberating India and having extra sugar,” Orwell once wrote. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “In a time of universal deceit,” Orwell wrote, “telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Perspective | Five ways President Trump can become media literate 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z "Animal Farm" was followed three years later by an even bigger success: Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z He was a cross between Voltaire and Orwell. Quotes on the death of pundit Christopher Hitchens 2011-12-16T13:03:13Z But if Orwell was hardly a proto-feminist, his vision of the capitalistic commodification of human experience surely captures something of our glum times. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 "Family" for him meant Britain, as it did for Orwell. The Complete Humphrey Jennings Volume Three: A Diary for Timothy 2013-07-27T23:05:17Z The Orwell books were claimed, but the giveaway idea caught on. A San Francisco bookstore offers free copies of George Orwell's '1984' 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z 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 A: Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” is all about politicians taking metaphors and then draining them of any life whatsoever. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z And Orwell did all that stuff, and it was not just compatible, I think, necessary. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z 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 Last year The Green Bag, a self-described “entertaining journal of law,” pronounced Mr. Scalia the court’s “most literary justice,” based on his high rate of references to authors like Shakespeare and Orwell. Recalling Scalia, a Literary Stylist Who Scorned ‘Jiggery-Pokery’ 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z But this time the shows had a touch of Orwell in the arbitrariness of Raf Simons’s departure from Jil Sander after seven years as creative director. Fashion Review: Jil Sander, Bottega Veneta and Prada Highlight a Strong Milan 2012-02-27T23:42:53Z 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 During the conflict, Orwell experienced how propaganda could shape political narratives through observing inaccurate reporting of events he experienced firsthand. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Part One explores the political and intellectual experiences that formed Orwell’s worldview. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z 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 "It's took us a long time to get over his books," said Molyneux of Orwell, who lodged in his ward. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Orwell sought, by injecting immediacy and color into his language, to invigorate it. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z 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 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were pioneers in this sort of campaign against reality, but Lynskey argues persuasively that Orwell knew that they would not lack successors. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Orwell's depiction of his sordid lodgings above a tripe shop – with an unemptied chamber pot beneath the breakfast table – makes great copy but tells us little about the living conditions of most Wiganers. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z 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 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 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 Despite its faults, Lynskey’s jeremiad remains valuable and terrifying for the blistering spotlight it shines on Orwell’s overriding purpose, defined in its title, “The Ministry of Truth.” Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z 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 When Orwell got back from the front on the 20th the Blairs expected to be arrested at any minute. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z In a secular democracy, it's strange that, to paraphrase Orwell, some religions are more equal than others. Raccoons, rabbits and Sean Spicer: The camp and contradictions of the White House Easter Egg Roll 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z 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 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 Which is to say, according to Orwell at any rate, all that had been won in 1936 was being lost in 1937. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z The record opens with “While Rome Burns,” a folk rock exercise in observing the absurdity of American culture, with a reference to Orwell: Son Volt's Jay Farrar is "singing about the dark times" on "Union," the new protest album 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z That’s because in this version of Orwell’s story of one man’s revolution in the dystopia of Oceania, our hero, Winston Smith, is the ultimate unreliable narrator. London Theater Journal: Mind Games 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Much of Orwell's keenest insights concern what totalitarianism is incompatible with. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z The Orwell prize for journalism was split between two people due to the "outstanding standard of entries". Orwell Prize for Baha Mousa book 2013-05-16T12:29:23Z 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 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 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 Orwell’s speeches, either in rehearsal with Carlotta or made directly to the audience, survey his writings, offer biographical anecdotes and announce his hope that socialism will triumph in the postwar world. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z With high levels of economic inequality, political assaults on truth and renewed concerns about totalitarianism, Orwell's ideas remain as relevant now as they were 75 years ago. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z It's set in New York in 2032, under a police state, and Frederick says it's a little bit Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a little bit Occupy movement. Kickstarter: the crowdfunding site that wants to spark a creative revolution in the UK 2012-11-14T20:00:02Z Orwell’s notebooks bulged with cuttings and pamphlets and duplicates. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 Orwell was bowled over by it – and raided it for his 1984. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z Orwell’s version ended in glorious bleakness, with the pigs carousing with the men and the old order re-established. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z 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 Orwell and Hughes were responding in an unconscious way to the approach of eternity, and with a certain defiance. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z Orwell's 1946 essay Politics and the English Language is being given away for free from the Orwell prize's website, as well as published in a 99p edition by Penguin. George Orwell Day 2013-01-21T10:40:54Z This book has a bit of that, too, but more frequently serves as a platform for Orwell to expound on weightier topics, often in terms that still resonate today. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z Orwell is committed, however, to outlining the distinctions between political systems. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Thomas E. Ricks, a former war correspondent, is the author of six books, most recently “Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.” Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z The 2012 Orwell prize winner for journalism paints just such pictures for our times. Guardian journalist Amelia Gentleman wins Orwell prize 2012-05-24T10:22:40Z Really, there's nothing more annoying than the human face your booted foot is stamping on forever quoting Orwell at you. Welcome to the New Liberal Arts. Fancy a BA in Science Fiction? 2011-08-26T10:40:24Z Steinbeck would come to be seen as ‘uniquely American’, just as Orwell would come to be seen as uniquely English. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 Guardian, Orwell expert Tim Crook, a communications professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, wrote that Trump's first days in office have been "an explosion of propagandist grapeshot." Not an 'alternative fact': George Orwell's '1984' tops Amazon's bestseller list 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Ever since, Wiganers have regretted Hilton's advice, while cannily turning the infamy of Orwell's depiction to the advantage of their town. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Orwell was a big Snap! fan, you know. Murdoch could learn from Shakespeare 2011-07-12T19:00:01Z 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 My book A Very British Killing, which has just been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, is an attempt to make sense of all this. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z “Tea is one of the mainstays of civilization,” as Orwell put it, and no one ever built a society on naked self-interest, however much Rupert Murdoch might wish otherwise. Popularitea: how putting the kettle on will make your office life better 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Throughout his writing life, Orwell had been preoccupied with consensus reality — its necessity and vulnerability. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Orwell also depicts the dirtiness of places and people by writing: How chefs became rock stars: The shifting attitudes toward restaurant work 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z 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 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 There are, however, other respects in which the comparison is rather unfair to Orwell. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Those works, read alongside more obvious works in English — from Orwell to Baldwin to Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” — help keep alive the spirit of democratic values and the demands on us to realize them. How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z 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 Orwell wrote “Politics and the English Language” at a time of political upheaval and confusion. Trump, the University of Chicago, and the Collapse of Public Language 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Like much of his later work – most conspicuously the much grimmer Nineteen Eighty-Four – Animal Farm was the product of Orwell's engagement in the Spanish civil war. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “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 Radio 4 is rattling through Orwell's oeuvre at a cracking pace Happily, much of it is still on iPlayer, from docs on his work to a dramatisation of Nineteen Eighty-Four with Christopher Eccleston. Catch-up TV guide: from Bank Of Dave to The Real George Orwell 2013-02-23T06:00:05Z The all-seeing telescreen in the corner of the room is an important device for allowing the state to exercise control, but Orwell's real concern is about far more insidious threats to liberty. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z 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 This was not a free society nor even an attractive one, nor could it be, but in those first few days Orwell was convinced that it was the most equal society he had known. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z As a philosophy professor, I'm interested in the continuing relevance of Orwell's ideas, including those on totalitarianism and socialism. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z 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 “Never use a long word when a short one will do,” Orwell wrote in “Politics and the English Language”. Double-plus effective 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z However, the last article Orwell published before his death in 1950 was a review of the second volume of Churchill’s war memoirs. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Allow only the words that Orwell thinks necessary, and the resulting stunted lexicon is itself a kind of functionalist, impoverished Newspeak. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z Part Two is a mess; it reads like a magazine article that grew but never matured into a coherent overview of the shifting ramifications of Orwell’s most famous novel. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z 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 took no time for Republican security forces to identify Orwell and his wife as spies. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z But what Orwell found pathetic in Comstock and repulsive in Kingsley Martin, he found murderous in Barcelona. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z He travels fastest who travels alone," Orwell said: "It may not be true, but at any rate it is a thought that everyone thinks. Motherlode Blog: I Can't Get 'The Little Engine That Could' Out of My Head 2012-10-01T17:01:49Z 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 The script of “Orwell in America” has several shortcomings, all of them excusable once its lead actor, Jamie Horton, starts to speak. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z The letters are appearing a year after the publication of Orwell’s diaries, which focused on the concrete and often mundane details of his daily life, including the number of eggs laid by his hens. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z She begins with a visit to Orwell’s cottage, in the English village of Wallington, where she was surprised to find the roses he’d planted some 80 years earlier in full bloom. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Writing in the Guardian earlier this month, Williams wondered what Orwell himself "would have thought" about the Mousa case. Orwell prize goes to 'chilling' study of Baha Mousa's death 2013-05-15T19:30:01Z For Orwell, both Nazism and Communism were totalitarian. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z And Orwell’s “1984” elaborates on that terror in ways we never forget. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Among the writers who inspired Orwell was his contemporary Arthur Koestler, who was also disillusioned with the communists after collaborating with them in the Spanish Civil War. Remembering Raymond Chandler and Defending Ruth Rendell 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Like Orwell’s Oceania, Shakespeare’s Elsinore is rendered as a place where the walls have ears — and eyes and digital memories. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z 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 He’s taken a stage production of Nineteen Eighty-Four to Hong Kong and Colombia, where Orwell’s subtext all but overtakes the story on the surface. Tim Robbins: 'With the exception of America’s native tribes, we're all new here' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z 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 Communism, fascism and European imperialism “were all either dead or mortally weakened. Forty years after his own painful and early death, Orwell had won.” Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z In fact, Tony Cox’s “Mrs. Orwell,” at the Old Red Lion pub theater in London through Aug. 26, is at its least commanding as and when its eponymous figure takes center stage. A ‘Night Music’ of Heightened Harmony, and Pub Theaters That Put Actors First 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Orwell criticized Kipling on many worthy grounds; nevertheless, Orwell acknowledged, Kipling was somehow able to express ideas and emotions in words that stuck. Motherlode Blog: I Can't Get 'The Little Engine That Could' Out of My Head 2012-10-01T17:01:49Z Moreover, in Spain the situation was more complicated than Orwell allowed. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z And now I hear myself sounding like Orwell or Chomsky, spotting dystopia in every tweet, and I don’t like that. CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z 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 Orwell imagined this nightmarish society spying on its citizens with the help of surveillance gizmos called telescreens, which also broadcast propaganda. An intense ‘1984,’ with echoes of 2016 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Similarly, in his 1942 essay "Looking Back on the Spanish War," Orwell argues that totalitarianism must deny that there are neutral facts and objective truth. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z In it, she complains that his use of their romance in the novel “1984” “absolutely destroys me,” but also expresses regret for spurning Orwell. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z 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 The British fascination – or obsession – with crime has been a subject of curiosity for everyone from Dickens to Orwell but are we now saturated with it at the expense of the victims? When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Now “Orwell’s Roses” takes its place alongside other great non-biography biographies written by acclaimed authors who know how to tell a good story. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z 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 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 US has always been keen on Orwell: liberals warmed to him because of his warnings against the power of the state, conservatives because his books gave them a stick with which to beat communism. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z It closes, ringing and goading, with Orwell’s exhortation when asked what moral should be drawn from “1984”: “Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.” Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z 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 The writing isn’t as bell-toned as, say, Orwell’s — but that may be deliberate. Perspective | The 10 books to read in November 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z One of his closest friends, the novelist Anthony Powell, suggested in his journals that Orwell's politics would have drifted rightwards. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z After collecting Christopher Hitchens's award, his widow Carol Blue recalled that he had written a book called Why Orwell Matters, and quoted a passage from "the last essay he wrote". Orwell prize gets political 2012-05-24T15:50:01Z “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 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 But he cites the counter-examples of Shaw and Orwell, writers who wanted their words to change the world. 'I shall not miss Wallander' 2013-07-15T15:00:00Z 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 As Orwell taught, it isn't the labels – Christianity, socialism, Islam, democracy, two legs bad, four legs good, the works – that are definitive, but the acts done in their names. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z Orwell, whose fiction dealt presciently with the ironies of false statements masquerading as truth and the power of mass media to circulate them, was also a journalist. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z International Brigade Communists had been street-fighting Franco in Madrid while Orwell had been safely tucked up in his grocery. 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 Orwell’s own account of the action is in chapter 7 of Homage to Catalonia and is a masterpiece. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 should not be surprised that the sensations for Orwell and his elephant were the same. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z She won the 2016 Orwell prize for exposing Britain’s social evils, for her reporting on the care of dementia patients in the UK. Nicci Gerrard: ‘Dementia is more scary when you try not to think about it’ 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The extent to which the state is watching us today would shock even Orwell. Watching you 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Taylor also argues that Orwell was too unrealistic to work out a practical political programme. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Orwell died of TB, and even that great survivor Greene's late work shows a falling off. A literary career or a brilliant, successful one-off? Take your pick 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z 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 Because this involved disarming and imprisoning men he had fought alongside, in Orwell’s eyes the government, and especially the Communists who were increasingly influencing the government, were little better than the enemy. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 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 The problem in deciding what Orwell would write about in 2013 is that Orwell the man was incessantly, in 21st century newspeak, off-message. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z “In such circumstances there can be no argument,” Orwell wrote. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z At the same time, pace Orwell, Angel Pavement is only incidentally a story of lower-middle and middle-class London life. JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters' 2012-11-09T22:55:06Z We see a first edition of Orwell’s “Animal Farm” with the original subtitle, “A Fairy Story.” Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z His death, in a hospital, was announced by the Orwell Society. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Orwell became a direct model for me much later in my life – in the real 1984, the year in which I began writing a somewhat different dystopia, The Handmaid's Tale. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z 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 "I would be very tempted to mention Gogol, Kafka and Orwell at this moment," she said. Pussy Riot member denied appeal 2013-01-17T11:47:14Z 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 Animal Farm is one of the most spectacular emperor-has-no-clothes books of the 20th century, and it got Orwell into trouble accordingly. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z 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 His entree into the world of Orwell was similarly implausible. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Playing the Orwell card was not just a handy insult with a dash of literary sophistication, it also exercised a salutary effect on right-thinking people. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z 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 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 Because Orwell was so closely identified with the great causes and conflicts of his day, his passion for literature is often overlooked. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z 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 It's this view that author Rebecca Solnit pushes back against in "Orwell's Roses," her unconventional new biography of the author of "1984" and "Animal Farm." George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “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 Indeed, Havel predicted in the mid-nineteen-eighties, even as Communism began to totter, that the kind of regime described in Orwell’s “1984” was certain to appear in the West. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z 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 When Orwell arrived back on the 26th mass rallies were taking place in memory of Cortada, while Anarchist suspects were being rounded up. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 Orwell, Self protests, is invoked by present-day “language police” who seek to impose “good old-fashioned prejudices” on a “living, changing” tongue. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z 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 It’s an approach that Orwell himself likely would have approved. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z From then on he spent more time painstakingly studying and compiling his Orwelliana — novels, essays, journalism, letters, diaries, manuscripts, poems, plays and radio broadcasts — than Orwell had writing them. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Adam Birnbaum, director of Film Programming for the Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford, Connecticut, and co-organizer of the event, said Orwell's themes were just as relevant today as they were nearly 70 years ago. Orwell's '1984' back in theaters in stand against 'alternative facts' 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z When you listen, it is in that man-to-man, democratic way that so impressed Thomas Paine in revolutionary America in 1776 and Orwell in revolutionary Spain in 1937. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Orwell, who died in 1950, went on to write two of the 20th century's most famous novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Rare Orwell book fetches ?86,000 2010-03-25T12:28:00Z A close reader of 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.” Anthony Bourdain Was a Teller of Often Unappetizing Truths 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 Orwell also visited Liverpool, Sheffield and Barnsley – each of which now finds itself in the political limelight. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Orwell's dystopian novel, which coined the concept of Big Brother, is being produced by Scott Rudin, whose hits include The Social Network and Iris. Greengrass to direct Orwell's 1984 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 Written, as it were, not so much with Orwell in mind as Hannah Arendt. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z "And there's a chapter on his approach to religion, and his approach to the 'English question' – Thatcher, and Orwell." Christopher Hitchens faces posthumous 'prosecution' in new book 2013-01-16T11:43:48Z The Guardian called him a “one-man Orwell industry.” Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z 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 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 This was not perhaps as fatuous as the turn-down that Orwell received from the Dial Press in New York, which solemnly informed him that stories about animals found no market in the US. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z 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 "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 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 "Imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever," wrote Orwell, before going ahead and imagining for us. 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 He also read Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” which seemed fitting. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Orwell said: "the policeman who arrests the 'red' does not understand the theories the 'red' is preaching". British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z 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 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 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 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 We may think we’ve put Orwell’s “Big Brother” behind us, but the psychological conditions that gave rise to fascism and Communism are very much with us today. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z More important than the voice, the thing that really marks out Orwell as an Englishman from antiquity is that he doesn't send himself up. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z —Andrew Marantz I’m planning to re-read Orwell, especially “Down and Out in Paris and London,” which was given to me years ago one Christmas by George Trow, when I was trying to be a writer. What We’re Reading This Fall 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z If Orwell was fighting in a war akin to the Spanish civil war in 2012, where would he be – Syria? What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Orwell never explains why the stolid old Anglo-Saxon should be any more "clear" than such newfangled horrors; as "predict" and "extraneous" demonstrate now, words minted from the classical will very rapidly seem entirely normal. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z “Animal Farm” also marked the beginning of Orwell’s appropriation by conservatives, whom he was forced to keep reminding that he was a socialist. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The gruesome fusion of German art and state propaganda steadily unfolded in the 1930s, its specter perhaps explaining why Orwell was so truculent in his 1936 claim that all art is propaganda. Propaganda is here to stay. Is there a museum willing to tackle its complexity? 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Both Churchill and Orwell alerted the world to the clear and present danger of authoritarianism in all its forms. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible," Orwell writes, in the most celebrated passage. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z 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 Orwell said: "Apparently, nothing will ever teach these people that the 99% of the population exist." Christopher Hitchens's introduction to George Orwell's diaries is published 2012-07-16T11:44:38Z 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 Not everything works here, including the periodic cutaways to Orwell, who continues to type his book in his house, with its tranquillity and animal figurines. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The literary friendships Orwell cultivated may also indicate something about his taste, which was catholic, and his nature, which was tolerant of opinions that diverged from his but not of cant. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z In Orwell’s novel, Winston is the unlikeliest of heroes, a mild-mannered middle-aged cog in the immense, soulless machine that makes his country, called Oceania, run. Review: Doubling Down on Doublespeak in ’1984’ 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z In the years since, Orwell's writing has left an indelible mark on American thought and culture. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z To be sure, Orwell said that what he wrote in his dystopian novels were warnings rather than predictions, but let's forget about that for a moment. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z To those familiar with only Orwell’s later, more pared-down work, “Burmese Days” offers a diverting glimpse at what qualifies as a potboiler by Orwellian standards. | 'Burmese Days': ?Burmese Days? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-11-17T03:03:15Z I can't help citing Orwell as we talk, and the ways in which the American people gladly invited Big Brother into their homes and phones to monitor their private behavior. “America is becoming more like Russia” says Russian-born novelist Gary Shteyngart 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Both blurred the line between soldier and journalist; Churchill in the Boer War, Orwell in the Spanish Civil War. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Orwell’s portrait of a world in which the truth is irrelevant and the powerful rewrite the past is, regrettably, not at all out of date. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Orwell assumed that Gulliver reflected his creator’s morose character and claimed that Swift suffered from a “general hatred of humanity” stoked by a perverse obsession with mankind’s sins and weaknesses. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z 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 Orwell's writings indicate that his preferred conception of socialism also requires "political democracy." Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Brooks misses Orwell’s point—not surprising, for Orwell was writing from a leftist stance diametrically opposed to the conservative ideology Brooks long ago rallied to and, for all of his protestations, stays true to. David Brooks gets this wrong, too: He misses his own complicity in letting the GOP run off the rails 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z I haven’t read anything since Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” that illustrates so palpably how a patient tyrant, unmoored from all humane constraint, can reduce a man’s mind to liquid. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Thackeray and Orwell had their reasons for characterizing Swift in this way. Review | Jonathan Swift: Not (entirely) the misanthrope you thought you knew 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z And many of them, such as Orwell, wrote essays in response to these kinds of events instead, precisely so they could respond directly and quickly. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “Black Vodka” is being published simultaneously with an e-book edition of “Things I Don’t Want to Know,” Levy’s writing memoir and response to Orwell’s essay “Why I Write.”—A.D. “ Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z To go back to Orwell on Greene, there is no point in the critic complaining that nothing in Fletcher's previous life has hinted at the possibility of this transformation. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z No good reason is offered or indeed imaginable for always avoiding the passive, though Orwell did thus influence a whole generation of incompetent style-guide composers who repeated this loony stricture as gospel. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z So for me, Orwell is one of my great empathic heroes. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z Orwell had not come to Spain to fight a left-wing government. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Scobie, in The Heart of the Matter, is, according to Orwell, incredible because the two halves of him do not fit together. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z 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 The idea that governments could control people's minds terrified Orwell. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z For Orwell, being a book critic was hell. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z During the 1930s, Orwell had modest success as an essayist, journalist and novelist. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z 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 He also told Orwell that his choice of pigs as rulers was an unfortunate one, and that readers might draw the conclusion that what was needed was "more public-spirited pigs". Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Orwell did his bit by Serge, though, trying to get him published. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-06-05T13:05:59Z Stalin had the exiled Trotsky murdered in Mexico less than three years before Orwell began work on the book. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Orwell was a very critical fellow, but he was well aware that these emotions and this hunger for meaning, if it's not fed, if it's not satisfied, can be easily manipulated. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Back in the 1920s, Etonians like Orwell hadn't learned how to bloke it up when mixing with the less fortunate and didn't throttle back the top notes of their accents. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z This hagiography of the billboard is a far cry from Orwell's dismissal of advertising as a stick rattling inside a swill-bucket – in Lanier's future the bucket will be hung around our necks. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z In Orwell’s day, opinions about books weren’t that easy to find. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z Lynskey leaps from the Cold War to “1984” in the 1970s, which muddies some interesting analysis of Orwell’s reclamation by the left with a bewilderingly excessive amount of material about “Diamond Dogs.” Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Besides, Orwell wasn’t writing about a particular party. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z 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 Perhaps the most intriguing letter here is one written nearly a quarter-century after Orwell’s death by Jacintha Buddicom, a childhood playmate and love interest of the man she knew as Eric Blair. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z Both men were mesmerizing writers, though with different styles — Churchill was a master of rhetoric; Orwell a superb essayist. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z At the risk of oversimplifying, what Orwell was really getting at is the need to think for oneself. Considering George Orwell on the anniversary of his death 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “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 Orwell is the go-to thinker to account for our present woes – even though he is 63 years dead. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z For Orwell, democratic socialism is a political order that provides social and economic equality while also preserving robust personal freedom. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z They are very different books, but all exhibit the two qualities that Orwell said made him a writer: “a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts.” ‘Survival Math’ Opens Some Personal Wounds but Leaves Others Hidden 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z As Orwell wrote, Koestler "is writing about darkness, but it is darkness at what ought to be noon." Darkness in literature: Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler 2012-12-26T08:40:39Z Wednesday evening's award ceremony also saw the late journalist Marie Colvin's collected journalism, On the Front Line, win the Orwell Special Prize. Orwell prize goes to 'chilling' study of Baha Mousa's death 2013-05-15T19:30:01Z 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 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 The Orwell we’ve come to know, through his novels, essays and journalism, is penetrating and witty but also frequently terrifying and remote. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z 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 Like Orwell, her cardinal humors were essentially tolerant. ‘The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick’ Gives Off a Bright Light 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z 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 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 Orwell's telescreen is part of our accepted digital furniture now, it seems, and Big Brother is regarded as a gentle protector rather than an iron-fisted tormentor even as sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four skyrocket on Amazon. Hollywood has inured us to NSA-style surveillance 2013-06-14T16:28:00Z 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 In Orwell, the writer always beats the journalist to the story. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Probably 30 or 40 books arrive at TIME every day, sent by publishers, but just as it was in Orwell’s day, the signal-to-noise ratio is still extremely low. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z 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 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 But it is in his essays, a form capable of expressing both political passions and responses to life in its sensual immediacy, that a more complex Orwell can be seen. What George Orwell’s Roses Tell Us About His Politics 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Orwell has something to say to everyone who is suffering under autocracy. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z 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 Orwell says he records this encounter because, ‘trivial though it may sound . . . it is somehow typical of Spain’. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Like so much of this is clearly Orwell's recasting of his own distempered 1948 into a dystopian future. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z 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 This put Orwell out of step not only with most of the Labour party, but with Labour’s very reason for existence. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Orwell gets back to his lines, quite incongruously remembering only ‘the bare misery of the Fascist dug outs’. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 "But Trump takes doublethink to a new extreme, and if Orwell were alive today, I imagine Trump would amuse and horrify him at the same time," Crook wrote. Not an 'alternative fact': George Orwell's '1984' tops Amazon's bestseller list 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Orwell nods here by using the phrase "the Russian purges" descriptively himself: euphemising the show trials and mass executions as "purges" was a way of metaphorically justifying them as a purification of the body politic. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z Mr. Orwell, who married twice before his death at age 47 in 1950, was long gone before the year he made famous was made famous again by nearly 2.5 million newly married couples. What Drove the 1984 Surge in Weddings? 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z 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 The cold war, a phrase that Orwell himself was the first to use in print, soon created a very different ideological atmosphere. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z 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 Orwell, though he struggled at times to pay for food and rent, never wrote with an eye toward a paycheck. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Orwell’s statue has been in the works for several years, but was considered dead in the water as recently as four years ago, the Guardian reports, due to Orwell's still-controversial reputation. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Completed in hospital in Houston in November, a month before his death, it was a foreword to Orwell's diaries. Orwell prize gets political 2012-05-24T15:50:01Z The annotated versions of Orwell’s diaries revealed an antisemitic and homophobic bent and evidence that during the 1940s he provided a list of suspected Communists to the British government. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z "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 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 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 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 so interesting that Orwell's book has been claimed by the left and the right as the book for them," he says. In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z “Wandering through books and archives can be a lot like wandering through landscapes,” she writes of her research, and recalls a moment when she discovered a mention of yet another of Orwell’s obscure interests. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z 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 As you say, there's this of image of Orwell as this austere socialist, and obviously in "1984," which is his most famous book, it really focuses on Big Brother. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z 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 Orwell’s labors take on a potent moral dimension. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z 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 In “Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom,” Thomas E. Ricks gets beyond these differences and finds the iron core of both men. What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z Eventually the honour of the publishing business was saved by the small company Secker & Warburg, which in 1945 brought out an edition with a very limited print-run and paid Orwell £45 for it. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z 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 What would Orwell say about this state of affairs if he were alive today? In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Perhaps if Orwell were alive today, he might be writing about that. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 Perhaps not such a big deal, but in her expansive and thought-provoking new book, Rebecca Solnit uses Orwell’s garden as a way of exploring the author’s personal life, writing and political work. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Orwell elaborates on what he means by socialism in "The Lion and the Unicorn." Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z No sooner was Orwell back in Barcelona than he was in action again. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Orwell claimed later that he had gone to Spain knowing nothing of Spanish politics and with no idea what kind of war he was joining. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z “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 Orwell rarely mentions his wife, their adopted son or any other human beings in these pages. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z But when Mr. Press at last meets Mr. Jevtic, he finds not a Balkan Isaiah Berlin, nor a soldier-philosopher like Orwell. Books of The Times: Eyal Press Considers Courage in ?Beautiful Souls? 2012-02-23T23:21:46Z 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 Orwell noted that "we call our islands by no less than six different names", concluding with a celebration of "muddle". Sorry! The English and Their Manners by Henry Hitchings – review 2013-01-27T08:00:01Z 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 Ogawa draws clear parallels to Orwell's "1984" here: the truth of human experience can be forced into whatever shape an oppressive government dictates, with the threat of complete oblivion always on the horizon. You need to read this: 5 hot new fiction books coming in August 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The reader knows that Orwell will die of tuberculosis, at the age of 46, in January 1950, and though he, too, suspects that that will be his fate, he often pleads for more time. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z 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 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 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 Orwell based the “Proles” pub in his dystopian novel, “1984,” after the Newman Arms. ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z By that time I was 44, and I'd learned enough about real despotisms that I didn't need to rely on Orwell alone. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z In the end, Orwell would correct the proofs on his deathbed, and not receive full recognition until after his death. Philip Roth and famous literary exits 2012-11-12T13:37:25Z 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 Watching Nick Lane's adaptation you are struck by how many smaller details Orwell also foresaw: a state-run lottery, shoot-'em-up movies, and a two-year wait for a plumber. 1984 2010-09-28T20:29:00Z In fact, there is the grotesque possibility that Orwell, had he been living and writing now, would not have won the Orwell prize, the political writing award set up in his name. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 While many readers skip the section, it was important enough to Orwell that he threatened to withhold rights from the Book of the Month Club unless the group included it. With ’1984’ on Broadway, Thoughtcrime Hits the Big Time 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z 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 Orwell despised the book because of what he viewed as its fascistic reverence for sexual power, but the movie substitutes something more topical and subversive in those unsettled postwar years: an erotic dream of democracy. DVDs: Thrills From British Vaults 2010-06-20T02:00:00Z To Big Brother and the Party, Orwell wrote, “the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.” Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet Aesop and Orwell humanised animals as a device to tell moral tales. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z Orwell was unrealistic about the Spanish revolution, and it took him too long to work out why. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 "The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence," thought George Orwell. Book publishing: Scary reading 2010-07-31T00:04:00Z Orwell today would tell us that the Islamic State is Islamic and shame those who refuse to acknowledge a truth so plain. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: By the Book 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z In his outline for the novel, Orwell described the mood he wanted to create as, “the nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of objective truth.” Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z The letters show that Orwell was shattered by her death, but that he also embarked on an excruciatingly awkward campaign to woo a successor. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z Like Priestley and Chesterton, Hemingway was one of those writers whom Orwell never gave his full attention but with whom he had a lot in common. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Scanning his bookshelf, he settled on Orwell’s novel, for reasons he is hard pressed to explain. With ’1984’ on Broadway, Thoughtcrime Hits the Big Time 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z "Except for the useful abbreviations i.e., e.g., and etc …" Orwell declares, "there is no real need for any of the hundreds of foreign phrases now current in the English language." My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z So, in his urge to tell it like it was whatever the cost, Orwell had a lot of the journalist in him. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z He demonstrated his ability to accurately transcribe a barely-legible original manuscript of Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” by disporting his skills in paleography, the study of ancient and antiquated writing systems. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Orwell said the miners' marbled skin looked like Roquefort cheese, which would have meant nothing to them. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z In this extract, note the withering away of what Orwell reasons to be the case and the slow, incipient growth of what he knows to be the case simply by his commitment to it: The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Orwell calls instead for prose that reaches for fresh metaphors and that is precise and concrete. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z I wonder what George Orwell would have thought about all this. The brutal death of Baha Mousa 2013-05-03T10:53:56Z 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 Yet, as someone for whom political writing was a literary effort, Orwell loomed large as a paragon of committed writing. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z We did research the link between Orwell and Jones and there was speculation about if they met, but his family denied it. In "Mr. Jones" James Norton plays a journalist who uncovers the truth of the Ukrainian genocide 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z In the new collection, we read not only letters that Orwell wrote, but also some he received, and even a handful that friends and colleagues wrote to one another about him. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z 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 On Monday it is "Orwell Day", the 63rd anniversary of his death. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z 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 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 "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 McKibben, in his binary vision, ends up ignoring the compelling power of Orwell’s allegorical text, in which the exploited animals organize and carry out a successful revolution against Mr. Jones, the owner of Manor Farm. ‘Animal Farm,’ Bambi and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z My comrade was calling to say that perhaps Orwell had had a point after all. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z 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 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 George Orwell’s “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” may represent the gold standard here. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Orwell got out of Spain believing that it was just a rehearsal for the next big war to come. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 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 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 A plaque commemorates the Queen's opening of Wigan Pier in March 1986, 50 years after Orwell's forlorn efforts to find it. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Orwell read the local papers in Wigan Library, as I am doing, in an upstairs room backing on to King Street, but he didn't visit the town's pubs or observe Wiganers at play. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z 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 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 North and south are pulling apart once more – not yet to the extent where Orwell could describe his journey as if "venturing among savages", but getting there. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z But what also interested me with Orwell is, in a way, this book is written against the left, which is something he was doing a lot with his own writing. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Can we honestly claim that Animal Farm is more literary than The Book of Illusions just because Orwell's novel conveys a political meaning and Paul Auster's novel doesn't? Can Agatha Christie be political? 2013-05-27T15:14:54Z 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 These playwrights, critics and fantasy novelists are Orwell's heirs but they project themselves very differently. Radio previews: The Newsagent's Window and more 2013-02-02T06:00:20Z It features in the collection of her writing short-listed for this year's Orwell prize. My hero: Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum 2013-04-20T06:30:26Z 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 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 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 But in describing socialism, Orwell discusses more than economic inequality. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z And it is a sorry thing, but I suspect it is that Hitchens who has been posthumously honoured by the Orwell prize. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z PG But now, after the election of Trump, it’s impossible not to connect Orwell’s “two plus two equals five, if the State says so,” with inaugural crowd sizes and suspect budget math. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, Orwell rightly took the left to task for transferring its patriotism to the Soviet Union. Margaret Thatcher never liked her country 2013-04-14T07:00:00Z 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 As Lynskey puts it, “To quote Orwell was to assume, deservingly or not, some of his moral prestige.” How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Down And Out In Paris And London is an autobiographical work by Orwell, split into two parts, on the theme of poverty in the two capital cities. Rare Orwell book fetches ?86,000 2010-03-25T12:28:00Z 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 Even in 1946, Orwell was referring to a bygone age in British working-class life. George Orwell was no fan of the News of the World 2011-07-14T11:15:39Z I can remember worrying about how much of what Orwell described might come true by that year. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The author's vision and style, he suggested, were inextricably linked; "Orwell was not only prescient, but precisely perceptive in capturing not only his world, but any near future world." Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z Unfortunately, this revisiting also ended up reinforcing the standard view of Orwell as a stern socialist, too busy fighting the forces of totalitarianism to enjoy the finer things in life. George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z The organisers of the protest have released a statement, saying: “Orwell’s portrait of a government that manufactures their own facts, demands total obedience, and demonizes foreign enemies, has never been timelier.” US cinemas to show Nineteen Eighty-Four in anti-Trump protest 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Lynskey briefly recaps his life, paying particular attention to Orwell’s six months in Spain, where he had gone to fight fascism but encountered equal ruthlessness and dishonesty in Stalin’s communists. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Spain was to prove the fundamental political experience of George Orwell’s life. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 Orwell was constantly cold in Wigan and complained about the food – particularly the local delicacy of cold tripe seasoned with vinegar, a dish that my father still recalls with Proustian pleasure. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z Orwell praised Koestler’s “Dialog With Death” and was influenced in writing “Animal Farm” and “1984” by Koestler’s anticommunist masterpiece, “Darkness at Noon.” Remembering Raymond Chandler and Defending Ruth Rendell 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Doublethink, a key notion in the Newspeak vocabulary that Orwell invented for “1984,” spirals into quadruplethink and beyond in these productions. London Theater Journal: Mind Games 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Wodehouse was a deep admirer of Orwell, who wrote an essay in his defense after the radio debacle. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z 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 In fleshing out what he means by "approximate equality of incomes," Orwell later says in the same essay that income equality shouldn't be greater than a ratio of about 10 to 1. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z 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 After Orwell’s death Wodehouse wrote: “He struck me as one of those warped birds who have never recovered from an unhappy childhood and a miserable school life.” Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z “Down and Out in Paris and London,” by George Orwell. Alice Walker: By the Book 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Christopher Hitchens was last week honoured posthumously with an Orwell prize. The Orwell prize gets Hitched 2012-05-28T09:34:25Z Again it's hard not to compare him with Orwell, who comprehended the appeal of fascism, while despising it. The Expo Files by Stieg Larsson? review 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z At least Orwell's Ministry of Truth was run by red-blooded bureaucrats. Philip K. Dick predicted ChatGPT and its grim ramifications 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z 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 I would like to say something about this newspaper before coming to the subject of who has won this year's Orwell prize for journalism. Orwell journalism prize: the judges' remarks 2012-05-24T14:43:39Z Four Guardian journalists on long list for 2010 Orwell Prize All today's stories Last 24 hours 1. Spark tipped for Lost Booker 2010-03-25T14:40:00Z In many respects Orwell is ubiquitous and more relevant than ever. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 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 For Orwell, totalitarianism was a political order focused on power and control. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z George Orwell fails to return any useful results from his Google search. George Orwell's critique of internet English 2013-05-20T09:55:44Z Taylor argues that Nineteen Eighty-Four was born of paranoia – a paranoia that was apparent from the beginning of Orwell's writing career in the early 1930s. George Orwell back in fashion as Prism stokes paranoia about Big Brother 2013-06-11T17:08:01Z Orwell was a hell of a lot better book reviewer than I am. Confessions of (Another) Book Reviewer 2012-05-09T17:37:24Z For those who had not been there and seen for themselves, Orwell took the opportunity to administer careful beatings. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Orwell helps clarify the difference between these terms. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z He was quick with the literary references — Orwell, Pynchon, Raban — and headed to Juneau for no other reason than he’s “heard interesting things.” Budget cruise from Bellingham to Alaska: one man’s account of his ferry deck adventure 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z There are hints here, too, tantalizing but frustrating, of books Orwell had in mind but never got to write. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z Both notions of democracy seem relevant to what Orwell means by democratic socialism. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Although Orwell goes unmentioned in “High Minds,” the transformation he apprehended forms the focal point of this baggy but astute political and intellectual history of Britain, mostly England, from the 1830s to 1870. Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Orwell is still invoked in coverage of politics and culture. In a new era of surveillance and doublethink, '1984' takes to the stage 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Orwell’s first published pieces, as we have seen, followed these sociological lines by addressing the twin problem of state censorship in Britain and mass commercialization of the press in France. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 But Stock reckons that in 2013 Orwell would also be writing about the politics of food. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z Orwell saw little of his father, whom he described as “a gruff-voiced elderly man forever saying ‘Don’t.’” What do George Orwell and Winston Churchill have in common? A new book has the answer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “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 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 Orwell was an exceptionally prolific book reviewer and columnist, but it was his dystopian novels, “Animal Farm” and “1984,” that cemented his cultural legacy. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Reading the newspapers on Jan. 2, 1941, for example, Orwell made this observation: “The word ‘blitz’ now used everywhere to mean any kind of attack on anything. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z 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 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 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 This is put with exhilarating ferocity, though Orwell was not, as some assume, the first to notice the phenomenon. My problem with George Orwell 2013-01-17T15:49:30Z 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 In this barnyard tale — inspired by the horrors of the old Soviet Union — Orwell presents a timeless critique of the abuses of power. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z 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 Indeed, during last week's horsemeat scandal, Stock says a passage from Orwell's 1939 novel Coming Up for Air came to mind. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z 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 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 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 As a result of his dogged research, publishers had to withdraw incomplete, incorrect or obsolete earlier editions of Orwell’s works. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In strict taxonomic terms, Wells is the link between the cramped lower-bourgeois interiors of Dickens and Thackeray's early work and Orwell's 1930s fiction. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z Orwell understood that totalitarianism could be found on the political right and left. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z About Orwell’s gardening and fishing and rabbit skinning and bird-watching, however, clearly not enough scholarly work has been done. Books of The Times: ‘Diaries,’ by George Orwell, Edited by Peter Davison 2012-08-16T17:23:53Z In its fight against Fascism, Orwell seemed to believe that the Republic was turning Fascist. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z While Orwell and Professor Davison’s lives overlapped, they did not intersect. Peter Davison, Orwell Scholar on a Monumental Scale, Dies at 95 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Orwell had a habit of changing his mind abruptly. What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z London was under Nazi bombardment, and the manuscript of the novel had to be rescued from the wreckage of Orwell's blitzed home in north London. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Happily, her part is subordinate to the irascible if immediately arresting figure of Orwell himself, whom we encounter in waning health in a London hospital in 1949, the year before he died, at 46. A ‘Night Music’ of Heightened Harmony, and Pub Theaters That Put Actors First 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Orwell’s politics was developing now as a matter of truth to action. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z The cynical way in which Stalin had switched sides had come as no surprise to Orwell, who was by then accustomed to the dishonesty and cruelty of the Soviet regime. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z At age 24, Orwell returned to England to become a writer. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, the most powerful pages of “The Ministry of Truth” quote Orwell in the 1940s describing a state of public affairs all too familiar today. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Being an adult means, as Orwell put it, having the “power of facing unpleasant facts.” 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 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 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 For executing it, with the coolest of eyes and the most precise reporting skills, we award this year's Orwell prize for journalism to Amelia Gentleman. Orwell journalism prize: the judges' remarks 2012-05-24T14:43:39Z In this world, 2 + 2 does = 5, as Orwell noted, and the acceptance of bad arithmetic simply becomes a testament to the power of rulers to define reality and the terms of debate. Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z 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 I think that Orwell was one of the great travel adventurers of the 20th century. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z We're able to perceive the totalitarian threat of Microsoft placing a 3D scanning device in every living room because of the eerie echoes of Orwell's novel. Science fiction's five best guides to the present 2013-07-26T09:59:29Z Unfortunately, it has long fallen from favour, arguably supplanted as the most definitive account of Britain's depression-era woes by Orwell's book The Road To Wigan Pier. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z 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 Even if the International Brigades were Communist-controlled, their soldiers were there like Orwell was there, to fight the enemy, not each other. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z 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 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 Orwell was fastidious in recording the minutiae of his budget as he tramped north, using trains, buses and his own two legs. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z It’s an irony that Orwell, ever alert to the stubborn discrepancy between reality and high-flown fantasies, might have appreciated. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z At each stop Solnit turns back to Orwell, whose work touches all of it. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z "It's like an Orwell idea, keep the masses quiet," he said. Simon and Sondheim talk shop at joint appearance 2013-12-04T18:31:26Z Indeed, there's a better game to play with Orwell than "What would he be writing about were he alive?" What would George Orwell have made of the world in 2013? 2013-01-24T06:00:00Z “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 The sculpture will depict Orwell holding a cigarette with one hand on his hip. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z 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 I think I was influenced for the better by reading Orwell's Animal Farm – currently in the public eye but I had to read it for O-Level. Drawing lines: Q&A with Dinosaur Cove illustrator Mike Spoor 2013-02-15T12:12:10Z Trump is not interested in constructing a superstate like Oceania or even a provincial dictatorship like Airstrip One, both of which Orwell described so convincingly in his novel. Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z In that fleeting moment, Orwell marks the preciousness of human life and the heartlessness of power. Rory MacLean's top 10 books on Burma 2013-05-08T14:43:33Z I recently reread “Homage to Catalonia,” and realized how much I enjoyed Orwell’s way with words. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In what Orwell famously called "doublethink", the population of Oceania then is taught to believe "we have always been at war with Eastasia". America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z Orwell would write a poem in this man’s memory. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z When the real world offers daily doses of political surrealism, ignorance and hubris, it would not have been surprising if “Veep” now suddenly seems about as funny as an Orwell or Atwood novel. The ecstasy of defeat: “Veep” is back and better than ever 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Why not begin with Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London ? Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Take the influential triumvirate of Orwell, Waugh and Greene, who were born within a few months of each other in 1903-04. A literary career or a brilliant, successful one-off? Take your pick 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z Orwell said if you don’t understand their lives, you understand nothing. How to live well: A handy reading list 2012-12-10T12:45:00Z I do hope George Orwell will be an acceptable author for students in England. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z And yet Orwell here figures them for the brains behind the farm. ArtsBeat Blog: The Perilous Art of Giving Books 2012-01-04T21:59:46Z Orwell identifies liberty and truth as "safeguards" against totalitarianism. Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z In the back is a lending library stocked with Plutarch, Orwell and Plath. Hungry City: La Morada in the South Bronx 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z 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 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 As scholar David Dwan has noted, Orwell distinguished "two concepts of democracy." Orwell’s ideas remain relevant 75 years after "Animal Farm" was published 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Were he alive today to revisit his journey north, Orwell would find time and distance converging, the past rushing to meet him. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z The truth is, Auden missed a phone call from Burgess on the eve of his disappearance; and Big Brother's 15-year "surveillance" of Orwell yielded less than 40 pages of material. British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review 2013-03-07T12:00:01Z 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 For a time Orwell considered producing the book privately with the help of his radical Canadian poet friend, Paul Potts, in what would have been a pioneering instance of anti-Soviet samizdat or self-publishing. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z 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 Orwell criticized the writing of his time for vagueness and euphemism, claiming that official-sounding jargon was “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Part Two of “The Ministry of Truth” addresses “the political and cultural life of Nineteen Eighty-Four” since Orwell’s death, in scattershot fashion. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z |
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