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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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.
3 months ago
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
Inspired by and drawing…
4 months ago
Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus review – activists display their defiance ⊖
Collateral comedy spins out from underneath the repression and violence charted in this sobering documentary that follows three indefatigable women
There are many symptoms of totalitarian sickness gri…
England vs Australia LIVE - The Ashes Day 2: Aussies on the ropes at 129 with just one wicket remaining after drama-filled opening day ○
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Nineteen wickets fell on a rollercoaster opening day of the first Ashes Test, with Australia going from the penthouse to the outhouse as their batting was left in complete disarray by the tourists.
6 months ago
My life in Gaza: ‘We burned our copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four to bake bread. What would Orwell think of us now?’ ⊖
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From fleeing Gaza City to a birthday in the family – Karim recounts a month in the territory
My life in Gaza: ‘Do you know the series Squid Game?’
Karim is a trained nurse in his early 20s from Gaza Ci…
The big brother local council: It's using facial recognition, AI surveillance and even drones to combat fly-tipping. And when ROBERT HARDMAN went he was interrogated by the police ○
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He might have been dead for 75 years, but it's been a hell of a month for George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and its vision of the ultimate authoritarian state.
10 months ago
George Orwell estate accused of censorship after putting trigger warning at start of Nineteen Eighty-Four ○
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George Orwell's estate has been accused of censorship after a 'trigger warning' was added to his classic novel Nineteen Eighty Four.
12 months ago
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’ ○
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A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain
In, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I w…
13 months ago
‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism ○
From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature
The volume’s…