Raoul Peck’s film about the Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist makes a compelling case for its continuing relevance but could ask more searching questions about its author
Raoul Peck’s documentary about Ge…
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‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer ⊕
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The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, …
72 days ago
Historic pub loved by George Orwell, Dylan Thomas and Virgina Woolf gets zero hygiene rating due to mice and food 17 days past its sell-by date ⊕⊕
Once the haunt of London's literary elite, The Fitzroy Tavern, in the salubrious district of Fitzrovia, was said to have regularly attracted the likes of George Orwell and Virginia Woolf.
77 days ago
ANDREW NEIL: In Trump's America they murder nurses and poets - to its everlasting shame... ⊖
They told you 'to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears', wrote George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was their 'final, most essential command', he wrote.
84 days ago
Donald Trump needs helpers for his appalling neocolonialist project. What else is this ‘board of peace’? | Owen Jones ⊖
Blair, Putin, Erdoğan, Orbán: the names of those invited to serve say it all. And it's about so much more than Gaza
The fate of the Palestinian people offers a warning about the future of humanity. Wh…
3 months ago
Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present ⊕
From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?
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John Updike’s best books – Ranked! ⊕⊕
Following the publication of the novelist’s letters, we count down the best of his books, from the dark magic of The Witches of Eastwick to the misadventures of Rabbit Angstrom
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Fury over family-friendly film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm that blames capitalism and has a happy ending ○
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The original novel by George Orwell follows a group of farm animals who rebel against their human masters, serving as an allegory for the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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‘Fear really drives him’: is Alex Karp of Palantir the world’s scariest CEO? ⊕
His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick
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5 months ago
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith ⊕
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country v…