To commemorate the 75th anniversary of George Orwell's death, The New Statesman has published two essays by the author of ...

At the end of 1984, Orwell had this amazing appendix which his early US editors wanted to cut and he insisted that the book couldn’t be published without it. It’s a short history of Newspeak ...

Orwell’s enchantment with socialist politics, which felt instinctual rather than ideological, informed his early novels and reportage but would be tested when, in 1936, he volunteered to fight ...

GEORGE ORWELL was about two and a half years older than myself. He once complained I was too fond of drawing attention to a difference in age that put him, he felt, at a disadvantage.

George Orwell gets his comeuppance in a new book about his first wife. ... Early on, Funder tells us that “Orwell’s work is precious to me. ... Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder.

As Orwell’s latest biographer, D. J. Taylor, has pointed out in Orwell: The New Life, Orwell’s novels before Animal Farm followed a common template of a sensitive young person going up against ...