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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In “Burma Sahib,” the renowned novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of young Eric Blair (the future George Orwell) when he was a novice police officer in colonial Burma.At ...

Another was Orwell’s Nose (2016), described by its literature professor author John Sutherland as a “pathological biography”.

Interest in George Orwell and his dystopian fiction is high ... Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf; 464 pages; $32. ... Orwell and early biographers wrote Eileen out of history; ...

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 ...