That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984." Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a world ...

Whether you’ve read 1984 or not, George Orwell’s iconic book has embedded itself into our collective consciousness, introducing concepts like “Big Brother,” “Thought Police,” “doublethink” and more.

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 in the past.

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

Orwell himself could be sentimental about his longing to escape (“Thinking always of my island in the Hebrides,” he’d once written in his wartime diary) or wonderfully blunt. In the aftermath of ...

Andy Serkis’ disastrous “Animal Farm” draws attention to the Orwellian movies we actually need. Orwell’s ideological impact maintains even now, precisely because he designed his masterful last work of ...

From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?