George Orwell
Novel explosives of the Cold War
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White reviewed
China’s surveillance technology is terrifying
Everything we do and say can now be monitored and stored for future reference
Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a guidebook for the present day
A powerful totalitarian state is no longer needed to coerce human beings
How does today’s world compare with Orwell’s nightmare vision?
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four by Dorian Lynskey reviewed
The problem with the new Animal Farm
Four legs good, two films bad?
Brave New World Revisited, revisited
We’ve grown increasingly obsessed with dystopian narratives since 2016. But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?
