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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Michael Shelden, a Dean’s Research Professor, and a renowned biographer who has written about George Orwell, Winston ...

Converting Animal Farm into a shudder-worthy nightmare is certainly one way to go with it. The misjudgments of the new animated film, directed by Andy Serkis, are so legion that it’s hard to know ...

“Orwell: 2+2=5” led all films with seven nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday morning. The documentary by Raoul Peck (director of the ...

It’s fitting that Raoul Peck’s latest documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” is hitting theaters across the country during this year’s Banned Books Week. Since its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s ...

Emmy -winning director Alex Gibney, who is a producer of “Orwell: 2+2=5” joins The Weekend to breakdown his new documentary weaving together author George Orwell’s writings and how it strikes ...

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.