What Orwell got right
The more the world in which Nineteen Eighty-Four was written has changed, the more it has stayed the same.
ByGeorge Orwell
George Orwell in an age of moralists
Should we stop measuring the great English writer by today’s standards?
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The memeification of George Orwell
The writer has become a national treasure, moral arbiter and begetter of biographies: do we need a new one?
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BBC Radio 4’s Raiders of the Lost Archive explores the world of “audio archaeologists” and missing tapes
In a tape-filled attic, Roger Bickerton finds 94 instalments of Desert Island Discs.
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The mysterious life of Inez Holden
The novelist and former Bright Young Thing ably captured Britain in the early 20th century. Her work deserves to be…
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Wrestling with Orwell: Ian McEwan on the art of the political novel – Audio Long Reads
What the 20th-century author teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.
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From the NS archive: Mr Blair and Mr Blair
23 October 2000: What the PM doesn’t have in common with George Orwell.
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George Orwell outside the whale
What the writer teaches us about politics and the imagination in a time of crisis.
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What Winston Churchill and George Orwell had in common
A new book from Thomas E Ricks explores the similarities between two 20th century mavericks.
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