After Amazon’s Kindle removed my ability to download and back up my own e-books, I went in search of an alternative.

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 ...

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education. The call can hardly have come as a surprise.

There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in Oceania, the superstate in ...

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 ...

1984 was written by George Orwell in 1949.The dystopian novel is a blatant exposition of totalitarian threats like Nazism and Stalinism and it spurns out as an unabashed warning for the future. The ...

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 ...