Orwell wrote an autobiographical essay, Why I Write, in 1946, in which he pointed out four reasons why writers write. The first is sheer egoism—to express oneself, to be known to all, and to be ...

Is art replicating life when it comes to Orwell’s most influential novel? Emrah Atasoy and Jeffrey Wasserstrom investigate ...

Orwell is feted for the farsightedness of his geopolitical vision as long ago as the 1940s. But a lot of writers were ...

George Orwell's quote highlights the difficulty of recognizing obvious truths obscured by habits and power. He believed intellectual honesty was a moral duty, urging us to question complacency and ...

A trailer has dropped for acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, which had its premiere at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Damian Lewis narrates the film as Orwell, the film examining the ...

I stood on an overpass in Falmouth on Jan. 8, the day after Renee Good was killed, with others who had American flags and ...

Call your elected officials. Donate. Get ready for when it happens to you - because any big blue city, including Houston, ...

Those born between WWII and 1990 were born in era when postwar liberal international order went largely unquestioned; that ...

J.M. Sorrell’s Jan. 7 column entitled, “Zionophobia zealots” ends with a George Orwell quote. “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” We couldn’t agree ...

Reflection on Easton's career and techniques with a focus on his ferry journey to Hebridean island of Jura. The post See the remote Scottish island where George Orwell wrote his dystopian masterpiece, ...