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
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School used AI to purge library of 'inappropriate' books including Orwell's 1984 and Twilight, with librarian branded 'safeguarding risk' ⊕
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An investigation by Index on Censorship found a secondary school in Greater Manchester earmarked almost 200 books for removal from its library that were deemed 'inappropriate'.
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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, …
50 days ago
Decades of feminism paved the road to Andrew’s arrest | Rebecca Solnit ⊖⊖
The outcry and activism of the 2010s – itself enabled by earlier generations of feminists – brought us to this moment. But if the Trump administration has its way, opposing forces will prevail
This we…
54 days ago
The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell ⊕
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Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest Hemingway
Four young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring…
61 days ago
From Brontë to Ballard, Orwell to Okri: the best songs inspired by literature – ranked! ⊕⊕
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As Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights gets a boost from a new film adaptation, we survey the surprising, seditious and sensual ways in which prose has influenced pop
The oeuvre of Katy Perry occasionally h…
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…
Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit ⊖
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The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy
As Donald Trump deteriorates and his grasp on power fades, he has been lashing out furiousl…
How in my 50s I reversed my skin's biological age by 18 years: As a high-tech scan proves I look 36, the skincare, foods, night serum and things I NEVER do that have knocked decades off me - and vanished my wrinkles ⊕
George Orwell taught us that, 'at 50, everyone has the face he deserves'. Now, in a suitably Orwellian development, futuristic technology is about to tell me whether this is true.
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A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit ⊖
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Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
A young white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope spea…