On June 8, 1972, the photograph of a naked, frightened child running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War was taken.

In his 1949 review, Lionel Trilling writes that George Orwell’s “1984” is about a state power that was coercing, not ...

This would culminate in victory in the Cold War in 1989. As someone who had read Nineteen Eighty-Four long before the year it describes, I felt more relief in 1984 that Orwell’s warnings had ...

Those words were first published 75 years ago in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the greatest political novels, and certainly the most quoted, of the last century. Phrases ...

“Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a searing denunciation of totalitarianism, censorship and disinformation, brought us the terms “doublethink” and “Thought Police.” Its relevance in the era of ...

The brainwave to pulp them and turn them into copies of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” came when Shrigley re-read the dystopian novel during the pandemic — 2020 marked 70 years ...

The brainwave to pulp them and turn them into copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four came when Shrigley re-read the dystopian novel during the pandemic—2020 marked 70 years since ...

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 ...

More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...

Martin Freeman kicks of a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season. Other ...

Fans of Nineteen Eighty-Four will have spotted the Newspeak of Oceania, the totalitarian state that surveilled its citizens’ every twitch in George Orwell’s novel. In the original, mononymous ...