From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best? Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. In each novel the protagonist is to ...

A federal judge ordered the National Park Service to restore exhibits about slaves who lived at the nation’s one-time executive mansion in Philadelphia, agreeing with the city that the Trump ...

Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece envisaged a world dominated by three rival blocs that are constantly at war with one another. U.J. Alexander/Shutterstock There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell ...

Did…the pope just cite George Orwell? Not exactly. But Pope Leo did casually drop an unexpected eponym into his Jan. 9 address to diplomatic ambassadors: It is ...

Like many of us, George Orwell saw January as a month to be endured rather than enjoyed. You can picture him steeling himself against its cold, gloom, rain, frost and wind. And not only because of his ...

People think they remember “1984.” They remember Big Brother's face on the poster. They remember "War is Peace" and the vague dread of surveillance. But ask them about the mechanics — how ...

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 ...

George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing thousands of words a day only weakened ...

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's ...

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 ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality of it. Yet that’s not ultimately the reason “Nineteen Eighty-Four” remains ...