In 2025, the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, best known for creating the chatbot Claude, agreed to pay up to US$1.5 billion to thousands of authors after a judge ruled that the company had ...

Historian Laura Beers, who is part of the Bartz v. Anthropic class action settlement, writes in The Conversation about ...

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 ...

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 ...

That doesn’t mean you can’t still read a high-quality novel during that shorter window, as sometimes the best things come in ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at ...

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 technology news, Amazon.com has remotely deleted some digital editions of two books purchased by users on the Kindle digital book reader. Ironically, the books were George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal ...

Some books need no subtitle, and “George Orwell and Russia” is one of them. Orwell leapt to everyone’s mind when, on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched his brutal war on Ukraine, on a scale not ...

Those who are Orwelled out perhaps won’t welcome the first major book about him of the new year. However, Paul Theroux’s Burma Sahib is a different kind of Orwell book. For one, it is about the man he ...

The short, urgent life of George Orwell owed much of its success to the devotion of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy. For decades after her early death in 1945, scholars tended to overlook her ...