George Orwell

...before they post online: "Don't go public with your so-called private life." Martin says her daughter told her: "'You know George Orwell's 1984 has come about, but it's not them doing it to us, it's us doing it to ourselves. We're...

In this article: Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, LinkedIn, and MySpace

...clever Jew who was unlikely to understand the "English" idea of fair play. The paper was obliged to publish a grovelling apology. George Orwell wrote a stirring essay in 1945 on this English prejudice. Julius describes a train journey when...

In this article: Anthony Julius, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Britain, Democracy, Allegation, Rash, Diana, Princess of Wales, and UN

...resources to attack Starbucks. On closer inspection, it was an electricity transformer blowing up. NGOs speak the AfPak lingo George Orwell noted that armies march on a plague of initials. The coalition forces and aid agencies here are...

In this article: Kandahar, Coffee, Starbucks, Taliban, Afghanistan, Capitalism, and Pizza Hut

...lives, creating a more unified experience described in The Future of Work. "If the computer screen is not yet the Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984, along with invasive accomplices like the BlackBerry and iPhone, it may be seen as a...

In this article: BlackBerry, Big Brother, Obesity, Little Brother, Iphone, Facebook, USA Today, Financial Times, and World Health Organization

...as news from the worlds of music, literature, and pop culture. The Philadelphia Inquirer looks back on the literary career of George Orwell, 60 years after his death. NPR's All Things Considered profiles poet and singer-songwriter Gil...

In this article: Van Dyke Parks, Gil Scott-Heron, Morrissey, Smiths, Joe Sacco, Los Angeles Times, and Ann Beattie

...figures of the 1930s, such as the heiress Nancy Cunard, or even a quote from one of the famous writers of the period such as George Orwell. She begins instead, for those who cannot now remember or who never learned about it, with an...

In this article: Britain and Gruel

...rat is a reminder that the first book in Mr. Peace's "Red Riding" quartet, titled "Nineteen Seventy-Four," is an explicit nod to George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and its infamous rodent of terror. The title of Mr. Peace's book and the...

In this article: David Peace, Robert Sheehan, Tony Grisoni, Peter Mullan, and Mark Addy

War was peace in this world, lies were truth, and the individual had no rights whatsoever. It's a powerful novel, a milestone, but Orwell, deeply influenced by the evil of Joseph Stalin, painted in broad strokes. In fact, 1984 came and went...

In this article: John Temple, Nineteen Eighty-Four, England, Big Brother, and Democracy

...Orwell has been named as the most popular Penguin novelist in its history in a survey of its current stable of writers. George Orwell emerged as by far the favourite writer among 50 Penguin authors The publisher asked 50 of its...

In this article: Gaia, Gulf War, RAF, History of the Peloponnesian War, Tornado, Punch magazine, Thucydides, and James Lovelock

...occurred during Orwell's 1920s stint in the Burmese police. An elephant had run amok in the local marketplace, and when Orwell was summoned he shot it, although it posed little further danger. As the only English official present, he had to...

In this article: Michel de Montaigne, Imperialism, Chatto & Windus, and Eastbourne