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George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has given us a whole slew of shorthand phrases for dystopian or oppressive governments and surveillance, but even if you’ve already read about ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four: "One did not know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your nervous reactions ...
When it was published, the action of Nineteen Eighty-Four took place 25 years in the future. But 30 years on from the imagined setting of George Orwell’s seminal novel, how much of the world it ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four does not pastiche a world ravaged by capitalism and ruled by celebrities—the kind of world that could lead to the election of someone like Trump.
In 2017, Nineteen Eighty-Four climbed to the top of bestseller lists in the United States once again, after Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s media advisor, described the outright falsehoods told ...
For the "Nineteen Eighty-Four" intro, Pynchon returns to his signature nonfiction voice: postdoctoral yet cheerfully sophomoric, sad yet undespairing, ...
The artist first read “Nineteen Eighty-Four” when he was an art student in the 1980s. On reading it again, he said he realized “that it was still a really resonant book, (and) that it seemed ...
The creation of the National Security Agency was still three years away when George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was published in 1949. But that hasn't stopped consumers from snapping up copies ...
The artist first read “Nineteen Eighty-Four” when he was an art student in the 1980s. On reading it again, he said he realized “that it was still a really resonant book, (and) that it seemed ...