PEN America reports that nearly 4,000 unique book titles were challenged for banning in the U.S. in 2024. Take a look at the ...

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

From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship ...

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English writer who died in 1950 at the age of 46. His best-known works are the novels “Animal Farm” (1945) and “1984” (1949), both of which are ...

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 ...

Organized by Lenox Library Director Katie O’Neil, nearly 40 area residents signed up for 15-minute slots to push back against ...

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 ...