The anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s greatest novel is an opportunity to recognise literature’s capacity to provoke and instruct, and to inspire independent thought and action. (Photo ...

The year 1984 came and went a generation ago, and the clocks did not strike 13. Big Brother’s face doesn’t stare down at us from giant posters. Masked police do not apprehend citizens guilty of ...

Since first appearing in the popular lexicon, the term “Orwellian” has conjured up a vision of the prototypical “totalitarian state”: a one-party dictatorship that swarmed with secret police, spied on ...

Seven decades ago, a middle-aged book reviewer and former Anzac digger was so mesmerised by a new novel that he urged his readers to waste no time in ordering copies of it. "I have just finished ...

George Orwell endured a case of tuberculosis and a near-death experience while writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. | Ivan Radic, Flickr // CC BY 2.0 George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has given ...

My copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has cardboard covers. Front and back, the book is decorated with cheesy reproduced paintings. Big Brother wears an evil goatee and eye makeup. A red ...

Given the year of its release, there was a trite sense of inevitability about Michael Radford’s attempt to glean a movie from Orwell’s dense and moody classic. Yet, what could have sunk into gimmick ...

It seems self-evident that “We,” the grandfather of 20th-century dystopian fiction, was written as a reaction to the early Soviet state. But this work, which inspired Orwell, Huxley and Vonnegut, may ...

Sandra Newman’s “Julia,” a feminist retelling of George Orwell’s much-adapted 1949 dystopian political novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” has found publishers on both sides of the pond. Variety understands ...

Well, that didn't take long. When we started the Dystopia Project two weeks ago, with the aim of writing a story on every dystopian novel that might apply to the Trump presidency, we figured it would ...