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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...