George Orwell’s “1984,” published seventy years ago today, has had an amazing run as a work of political prophecy. It has outlasted in public awareness other contenders from its era, such as Aldous ...

Raoul Peck's essay film about the creation of "1984" uses George Orwell's words and writings as a jumping-off point to chart the rise of modern fascism. On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X ...

His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

A federal judge invoked the chilling words of dystopian novelist George Orwell in a rebuke of the Trump administration’s effort to circumvent the Presidential Records Act (PRA), a 1978 law requiring ...

George Orwell’s new novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (Harcourt, Brace), confirms its author in the special, honorable place he holds in our intellectual life. Orwell’s native gifts are perhaps not of a ...

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 ...