The current political climate in the world today has me thinking about the books of George Orwell, especially Nineteen Eighty ...

A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of 1984 ...

Big Brother, the all-seeing dictator in 1984, as seen in the film version of the novel released in 1984 starring John Hurt as Winston Smith - Collection Christophel/Alamy Stock Photo George Orwell’s ...

George Orwell is a widely read and taught dystopian novel, dealing heavily with themes of censorship and government ...

Author George Orwell’s estate has reportedly given the green light to allow an author to "retell" the classic novel "1984" from a feminist perspective. The estate, according to the Guardian, will ...

The regime in George Orwell’s “1984” declared “War is Peace — Freedom is Slavery — Ignorance is Strength.” The dystopian fiction drew flocks of book buyers after Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway’s ...

Washington, D.C.'s public library is sponsoring a public reading of the entirety of 1984, from "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen," down to the final moment when ...

George Orwell envisioned the dangers of monolithic government armed with artificial intelligence in his famous novel of a future dystopia, "1984," published in 1949. The Party, led by Big Brother, ...

Animal Farm and 1984 will both be published in Welsh for the first time.

There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author outlines a ...

After last year’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, documentary veteran Raoul Peck returns with another sociopolitical exploration of history and its relation to the present. His focus this time, with the ...

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...