Superlatives may get people's attention, but they don't do much to reward it. So if one were to hazard, for example, that novelist Thomas Pynchon's foreword to the new Plume edition of "Nineteen ...

From e-challans to clamping down on fake news, almost everything is lazily labelled as ‘Orwellian’ these days by people who ...

THE BBC's production of Nineteen Eighty-Four has long been talked about in hushed tones by those who love their dystopian television drama. First screened in 1954, just five years after George ...

This week's Berlin Wall ceremonies marked a golden moment in the history of that most benighted of cities. They also reminded us of the incredibly enduring power of Nineteen Eighty-Four: it's almost ...

My copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has cardboard covers. Front and back, the book is decorated with cheesy reproduced paintings. Big Brother wears an evil goatee and eye makeup. A red ...

Just 750 copies of this lovingly designed edition of George Orwell’s classic novel have been made, commemorating the original book’s enduring legacy This year, George Orwell’s seminal book Nineteen ...

When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four became a bestseller again. To protest the Trump administration’s reduced funding for the ...

Like Marilyn and Elvis, George Orwell has had a long and profitable afterlife. Though he died in 1950 at the young age of 46, his last and best book, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is one of the most ...

Well, that didn't take long. When we started the Dystopia Project two weeks ago, with the aim of writing a story on every dystopian novel that might apply to the Trump presidency, we figured it would ...

Sandra Newman’s “Julia,” a feminist retelling of George Orwell’s much-adapted 1949 dystopian political novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has found publishers on both sides of the pond. Variety understands ...