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

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

In WWII, George Orwell at the BBC and Subhas Chandra Bose on Azad Hind Radio clashed over the airwaves. From London’s counter ...

Animal Farm's 80th anniversary reminds us of Orwell's enduring influence. Dive into the narratives that have shaped our ...

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

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

Sometimes called the conscience of a generation, Orwell is best known for two novels: Animal Farm and 1984. Both books, published toward the end of Orwell’s life, are often assigned to middle and high ...

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

Vladimir Putin’s encounter with Donald Trump in Anchorage summons bad memories of past summits in Munich or Yalta, in which ...

On Aug. 17, 1999, an earthquake in a densely populated region of northwestern Turkey killed at least 17,000 people and ...

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

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