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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 ...

A hectic high-profile adaptation for Audible plays fast and loose with George Orwell’s original text. By Shreya Chattopadhyay Shreya Chattopadhyay is on the editorial staff of the Book Review. When ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Laura Beers is a professor of history at American University. She is the author of several books on British culture and politics, including the upcoming “Orwell’s Ghosts,” on the ...