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 ...

I give it a doubleplusgood out of 10.

Orwell and Huxley offered contrasting dystopias: oppression versus distraction. Which feels more real today? Explore their ...

The texts invariably undergo a dramatic change. I decide to undertake the same exercise with George Orwell’s Animal Farm, in ...

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 ...

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.