There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his ...

By Mark Buckton - Taipei In his dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell depicted a world where truth was malleable, information ...

People think they remember “1984.” They remember Big Brother's face on the poster. They remember "War is Peace" and the vague dread of surveillance. But ask them about the mechanics — how ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” first published in 1949, anticipated our present moment all too well. As part of Winston Smith’s harrowing “re-education” process at the euphemistically named ...

It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, was first published. The organizations behind Banned Books Week based ...

I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the social sciences department at Warsaw University, a literary treasure trove heavy with the scent of dust and old paper, and so jammed ...

The 75th anniversary edition of George Orwell's novel 1984, which coined the term "thoughtcrime" to describe the act of having thoughts that question the ruling party's ideology, has become an ironic ...

The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...