A fresh printing of Orwell's masterpiece at the Hong Kong book fair: This was the book the world needed to read. Credit: Aaron Tam / AFP via Getty Images Saying George Orwell's 1984 is my favorite ...

Have you ever shared something on social media because you agreed with it, only to discover later that it wasn’t true? Did ...

Ancient Roman Swag Sells, the Smithsonian’s Shunned, and Your Art Critic Visits Cornell The Need to Manufacture Boredom Audio By Carbonatix On February 2, 2017, Tom Nichols at the Federalist wrote an ...

George Orwells quote from 1984, “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood,” explores why emotional ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

1984 By George Orwell : What happens when power grows so absolute that even your thoughts are no longer your own? George Orwell’s ‘1984’ explores this chilling question. The book was published in 1949 ...

As he sat down to write "1984," George Orwell was reeling from the death of a wife and suffering from a lung ailment. ZUMAPRESS.com Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two ...

George Orwell's 1984 remains a remarkably vigorous prism through which one views the difficulties of modern society. Each of these quotes reflects a key theme, from surveillance and propaganda to ...

The rigid, authoritarian state of Orwell’s design, where even thought and memory is controlled, is given life, breath and ...

Big Brother. 2+2=5. The memory hole. "Truth isn’t truth." Sound familiar? They’re from George Orwell’s dark masterpiece, "1984." OK, not all of those phrases. That last one, "Truth isn’t truth," ...

The track list for David Bowie’s 1974 album Diamond Dogs offers a couple obvious clues about one source of inspiration: song titles include both “1984” and “Big Brother.” But Bowie didn’t just want to ...