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

You don’t need to be Will Self to find fault with Orwell’s novel. But are its huge faults also essential to its virtues? George Orwell is “the supreme mediocrity”. His texts are “lacklustre”. He plays ...

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

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Seven decades ago, a middle-aged book reviewer and former Anzac digger was so mesmerised by a new novel that he urged his readers to waste no time in ordering copies of it. "I have just finished ...

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

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

The year 1984 came and went a generation ago, and the clocks did not strike 13. Big Brother’s face doesn’t stare down at us from giant posters. Masked police do not apprehend citizens guilty of ...

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

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