The impact of George Orwell's classic satire through the eyes of writers and historians.

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a crucial book for understanding rising authoritarianism. We need it more than ever.

The British writer was satirizing Stalinism in his novel, but the story is a warning against any form of totalitarianism and ...

Acclaimed director Raoul Peck blends historical clips, Orwell’s diary, cinematic references, and modern footage to craft a fresh portrait of George Orwell. Exploring the visionary author of 1984 and ...

Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted ...

The specific case against Stalin in Animal Farm regards the Bolshevik Revolution. Upon Lenin’s death in 1922, Stalin jockeyed ...

It was one of the first books that grabbed my attention as a young adult, and it turned into a gateway drug to Orwell’s 1984, quickly followed by Huxley’s Brave New World, and then, eventually, ...

George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a ...

Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.

Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month ...

Eighty years after George Orwell's biting political satire exposed the horrors of life in the Soviet Union, there is still ...