George Orwell News
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There is a classic “Doonesbury” cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other’s politics for everything that’s wrong in Southeast Asia, when they finally reach the Cambodian genocide.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wastewater treatment rules deemed to have been adopted in a pair of letters sent to a U.S. senator in 2011 were struck down by a federal appeals court.
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An interview with Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the HBR Guide to Better Business Writing. Download this podcast...
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George Orwell died in January 1950, two years and a month after finishing “1984”; he was only 46. More than six decades later, his complete diaries are being published in the U.S. for the first time.
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What books have high-profile readers been enjoying this year?
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Although I have known a few human pigs in my life, a real pig seemed a distant dream until I saw an ad on Craigslist in the spring of 2011.
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In 1984, criticizing George Orwell for having advocated political quietism to writers, Salman Rushdie asserted that “we are all irradiated by history, we are radioactive with history and politics.” He added: “Politics and literature… do mix, are inextricably mixed, and that… mixture has consequences.”
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Christmas has gone, and 2013 is looming. I would therefore like to share my own wishes for the New Year. Some are lighthearted, and some more serious, but all of them are heartfelt.
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U.S. Supreme Court justices raised the specter of George Orwell’s novel “1984” as they questioned whether police officers should have unbridled freedom to place GPS devices on cars to track criminal suspects.
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Ray Bradbury, the prolific science fiction and fantasy writer who mixed social commentary with warnings about modern technology’s dark side in short stories and novels such as “Fahrenheit 451,” has died. He was 91.
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