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George Orwell's estate has been accused of censorship after a 'trigger warning' was added to his classic novel Nineteen Eighty Four. The preface of the the 75th anniversary edition suggests Orwell ...
More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...
Mr. Lynskey’s book “The Ministry of Truth” (2019) was an examination of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” that widened to consider the history of political dystopias.
Chronicling his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia is one of George Orwell’s lesser discussed or written about works. It is for me, though, arguably the most interesting. This ...
The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four is in no position to let us know his thoughts on portrayals of Trump as Big Brother. Nor to tell what he thinks of people on the left, on the right or in the centre ...
Here is the award-winning case study. This year marks the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The sculptor Rachel Whiteread is probably best known for making casts of everyday items out of industrial materials like concrete and resin. She cast an entire house in London’s East End that ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four – published 75 years ago, in summer 1949 – depicts an imagined future where the world sees its people surveilled and controlled by three totalitarian states constantly at war.
This has been complemented by Sandra Newman’s Julia, a reimagining of Nineteen Eighty-Four as experienced by Winston Smith’s lover, Julia Worthing (she did not have a surname in the original). It’s a ...
In 2017, Nineteen Eighty-Four climbed to the top of bestseller lists in the United States once again, after Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s media advisor, described the outright falsehoods told ...
If there was hope it could only be with the proles, and yet right from the start in his notes for Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell recognised their “equivocal” position in the resistance movement (if there ...
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