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

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...