Dorian Lynskey is the author of several books, including The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 and Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. He cohosts ...

Sepalika is the name of a flower. It also evokes songs by Srilankan singers Karunarathna Divulgane and Jayasiri Amarasekara.

Four years on, global publisher Pan Macmillan has said sorry to the author "and many others" involved in the controversy. It ...

Yvonne Singh details the lives and legacies of five Black British journalists who should be as well known as George Orwell.

George Orwell, Kate Bush, and David Bowie have been named among the top cultural icons who most accurately predicted how we ...

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

The Review: Ahh yes, that Bryan Talbot gentlemen has been busy again, creating a standalone prequel to the Grandville ...

We watch as Hart divulges his story to strangers, cracks jokes with friends who grow increasingly tired of his alcoholism, ...