George Orwell’s “1984” contains much that informs our current moment.

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years ...

"1984" author George Orwell (ullstein bild via Getty Images) War is a constant in the novel, although the enemy changes at the whim of the rulers. Same thing in our world.

George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm ullstein bild via Getty Images According to Orwell’s son, Richard Blair, the writer thought his novel would “either be a best seller or the ...

Orwell's novel “1984”, written in 1949, predicted a dystopia where language, memory, and truth were controlled by the state.

Double think. Newspeak. Thought crime. Memory hole. These are the remembered phrases of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” about a futuristic totalitarian state run by ...

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984, by the British music critic Dorian Lynskey, makes a rich and compelling case for the novel as the summation of Orwell’s entire ...

When George Orwell penned his now-famous dystopian novel, “1984” — released 67 years ago in June 1949 — it was intended as fiction. The futuristic setting is more than three… ...

There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was published in 1949 — the English author ...