George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Love and Room 101 in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” was married for the second time in Room 65 of University College Hospital in London. His sickbed was not far ...
In the new documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,” filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell’s life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...
Sometimes, a film about the past can tell us a lot about the present. That's the case with Raoul Peck's "Orwell: 2+2=5," the ...
As the official book synopsis goes: "Big Brother… Room 101… Newspeak…" Even before his statue was unveiled outside the BBC in 2017, George Orwell was probably ...
His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.
George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, intro. by Christopher Hitchens. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-871-40410-7 Reviewed by David Brooks. George Orwell has become a literary saint ...
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 ...
In the realm of animated films, few projects have garnered as much anticipation as Andy Serkis' adaptation of George Orwell's classic novella, 'Animal Farm.' After nearly 15 years of development, this ...
Animal Farm and 1984 were published shortly before Orwell's death in 1950 [BBC] Two classic novels by George Orwell have been translated into Welsh for the first time. Animal Farm, a 1945 political ...