Two classic novels by George Orwell have been translated into Welsh for the first time. Animal Farm, a 1945 political ...

A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of ...

In an interview, Raoul Peck explains why he interspersed the writer’s story with footage of current events, including footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters.

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

George Orwell is a widely read and taught dystopian novel, dealing heavily with themes of censorship and government ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” first published in 1949, anticipated our present moment all too well. As part of Winston Smith’s harrowing “re-education” process at the euphemistically named ...

It’s pointless to draw too many analogies between the themes of "1984" and the zeitgeist of any given day - including today but George Orwell’s novel - in all its incarnations - has always seemed ...

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. Yet ...

Director Maren Maclean Mascarelli has assembled a remarkable cast in an intense retelling of Orwell's classic.

The current political climate in the world today has me thinking about the books of George Orwell, especially Nineteen Eighty ...

George Orwell, the British writer from the mid-twentieth century, is in the news these days. Some suggest we are stuck in “Animal Farm,” “an animal fable about totalitarianism,” but others believe ...