It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, was first published. The organizations behind Banned Books Week based ...

Despite being published in 1949 at the tail end of World War II, I think George Orwell’s fictional novel, 1984, is still as relevant today as it was back then. The book is set in the fictional state ...

It also reminds us that censorship, no matter what the media platform, has no place in American society and needs to be defended.

Remember high school English class reading assignments? Sometimes those dense classics were even enough to make the booklovers in the classroom groan. But every now and then, an assigned reading would ...

It was a bright hot day in June. Or possibly July. And the clocks almost certainly weren't striking thirteen, because they don't do that in this country. But it WAS the summer of 1984. I was 9 years ...

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 ...