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The Censors Have Names. Use Them.

Banned Books Week just ended, but the fight it highlights continues every other week of the year. This year's theme was ...
SFGate

Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mark Satta, Wayne State University (THE CONVERSATION) George Orwell’s dystopian novels ...
Augusta Free Press

George Orwell’s 1984 has become a blueprint for our dystopian reality

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an ...

‘Orwell: 2+2 = 5’ Review: Raoul Peck’s Documentary Highlights George Orwell’s Relevance at the Expense of His Mystery

The film is too interested in the brutality of totalitarianism to fully explore Orwell's great theme: the sinister unreality ...
Reuters

Orwell's novel of repression '1984' tops Russian bestseller lists

LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984", set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless ...