One reason for this is that international alliances that long seemed stable are now in flux. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final novel, Orwell envisioned a future tri-polar world divided into competing ...

More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...

The £2 (roughly $2.45) piece pays homage to Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell’s famous dystopian novel exploring themes like totalitarianism, propaganda, surveillance and freedom. “He was a writer ...

When George Orwell sat down in a remote Scottish farmhouse to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, in 1948, he wasn’t trying to predict the future. Instead he was issuing a warning. Whether we live in ...

Here’s how it works. George Orwell’s 1948 classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four now has a companion volume, one which retells events from a different point of view, with a feminist slant.

Those words were first published 75 years ago in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the greatest political novels, and certainly the most quoted, of the last century. Phrases ...

The more the world in which Nineteen Eighty-Four was written has changed, the more it has stayed the same. By Robert Colls “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ...

Martin Freeman kicks of a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season. Other ...

Strictly speaking, the career doesn’t begin here – there had been shorts and documentaries, a smattering of music videos (including Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit’) and Michael Radford ... Every facet of ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place in ... Visually, Radford’s film perfectly reflects the bleakness of its story. The film’s cinematography, done by a then-up-and-coming Roger Deakins, paints ...

The clocks don’t strike 13 at the beginning like in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, but Sandra Newman’s Julia, a retelling of the dystopian classic from the perspective of “the ...

The two men joked about possible sequels: the aftermath of Nineteen Eighty-Four could be explored in ... who produced Michael Radford's adaptation in 1984. Even now, the US rights still reside ...