He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?

George Orwell’s political ... are usually wrong,” wrote Orwell, and so we have to consider 1984 less as a foretelling and more as a warning. That said, the book is also a repudiation of ...

George Orwell’s 1984 has long been hailed as a literary masterpiece ... More surprisingly, however, is how relevant the book still is despite the titular date now being further in the past ...

Each week,we will explain why the book deserves to be on the list. This week, it’s 1984 by George Orwell. What’s the book about? Published in 1949, 1984 is a dystopian novel about a future ...