George Orwell is one of the 20th century’s most ... and even JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997-2007). A Cliff Notes version: Totalitarian regimes make up their own rules that are absurd ...

George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically shaped while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to the influence of the Soviet Union, the Republican side spent a lot of time fighting ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...