Orwell’s perennially relevant dystopian novel is a condemnation of the Soviet Union’s embrace of Stalinism and the censorship ...

While at points repeating its worst attributes, Grand Tour develops into a critique of the colonial adventure story drilled ...

The travel writer and novelist on ignoring woke politics, smoking opium in Afghanistan and the book that broke his marriage ...

“Five years later, Orwell published an essay called ‘Looking Back on the Spanish War,’ in which he states, ‘War is evil, and ...

Orwell’s five years in Burma temporarily shelved his literary ambitions, but, as journalist Dorian Lynskey writes in The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984, the experience ...

Elephants are social animals and are meant to live in herds. Burma had been on her own for over two years. By mid-year four cows and a bull elephant will have joined her at the complex, her longtime ...

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

Amid Chinese pressure on Myanmar to crack down on border scam operations, the regime has shifted blame to Thailand and ethnic armed groups, while the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

George Michael’s life itself — coming out as gay in the 1990s and confronting head-on potentially embarrassing aspects of his personal life that became headline fodder for the tabloids ...

But there is one crisis which has been largely ignored, and urgently needs attention: the one unfolding in Burma, or Myanmar. Ever since the military coup on February 1, 2021, which overthrew the ...