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 ...

British artist David Shrigley has explained why he pulped thousands of second-hand copies of The Da Vinci Code and turned them into special editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s landmark ...

It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, was first published. The organizations behind Banned Books Week based ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years in the past.

Truth Is Whatever Power Says It Is Orwell saw the danger before we had the tools to make it real. He wrote: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most ...

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 ...

Essayist, cultural critic and activist Rebecca Solnit’s two-dozen-plus books have wandered all over the map: paeans to walking and roaming off course (“Wanderlust” and “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Actor Matt Smith, who starred as Doctor Who, has narrated ...

Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" shot to the top of best-seller lists. Suddenly, it seemed, readers wanted to reacquaint themselves with a world ...

Try this quiz about the bookish influences on Homer Simpson, Kate Bush and others to see how many connections you know. By J. D. Biersdorfer His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism ...