Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says... Orwell on Writing: 'Clarity Is the Remedy' Call them ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

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

It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, was first published. The organizations behind Banned Books Week based ...

At a time when so many major Hollywood distributors are avoiding political stories for fear of offending or provoking, the new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 is refreshingly direct. The director, Raoul ...

The goal of biography is shifting. Though society at large remains fascinated by the lives of superheroes and other phenomenal individuals, the mythology of exceptionalism perpetuated through the very ...

Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.” ...

Two years after her tragic death in a Russian missile strike, Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina was posthumously awarded on June 25 the prestigious U.K. Orwell Prize for her book “Looking at Women, ...

Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. All Things Considered talks with writers about their ...