As the official book synopsis goes: "Big Brother… Room 101… Newspeak…" Even before his statue was unveiled outside the BBC in 2017, George Orwell was probably ...

George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Love and Room 101 in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” was married for the second time in Room 65 of University College Hospital in London. His sickbed was not far ...

The recent republication of Christopher Hollis’s controversial critical-biographical study of George Orwell—originally published in 1956 (by Hollis’s own firm, Hollis and Carter) and out of print for ...

George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic best known for his books Animal Farm and 1984. He was a man of strong opinions who addressed some of the ...

Essayist, cultural critic and activist Rebecca Solnit’s two-dozen-plus books have wandered all over the map: paeans to walking and roaming off course (“Wanderlust” and “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”) ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lev Mendes THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH The Biography of George Orwell’s “1984” By Dorian Lynskey ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...