Richard Blair, 80, was adopted by Orwell and his wife after they struggled to conceive naturally. The British writer is ...

The year it came out? 1999, but it might actually be easier to run had it come out 15 years earlier. I am playing—attempting ...

It turns out there were some pretty solid sci-fi movies released that year, including a fairly faithful adaptation of Orwell’s novel i ...

You can imagine what George Orwell, a crusader for linguistic precision and scourge of slippery euphemisms, would have made of that. It is a massive cliche to invoke Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen ...

I give it a doubleplusgood out of 10.

I often re-read classics and reimagine them in the context of the 21st century. The texts invariably undergo a dramatic ...

And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.