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"Perhaps We're Being Dense." Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

Some Kind, Some Weird, Some Unbelievably Harsh

By Emily Temple | June 19, 2019

1984">With Apologies to Orwell, We've Gone Way Past <em1984">

1984">With Apologies to Orwell, We've Gone Way Past 1984

From Putin to Trump, We Are Being Told to "reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."

By Dorian Lynskey | June 7, 2019

1984!">70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday <em1984!">

1984!">70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

John Rodden on the Ways We Use Orwell to Talk About American Presidents

By John Rodden | June 5, 2019

Nineteen Eighty-Four">The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <emNineteen Eighty-Four">

Nineteen Eighty-Four">The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Most Boring, Depressing Book of All Time?

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2019

The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

James Brooke-Smith Considers a Miserable Genre

By James Brooke-Smith | March 18, 2019

Margaret Atwood: If We Lose the Free Press, We Cease to Be a Democracy

Margaret Atwood: If We Lose the Free Press, We Cease to Be a Democracy

On the Murder of Journalists and Stifling of Speech

By Margaret Atwood | December 20, 2018

Best Reviewed
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  • Joyride: A Memoir
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32 Beautiful Early Dust Jackets for Iconic Books

By Emily Temple | November 21, 2018

The Last Days of George Orwell

By Hilary Spurling | November 2, 2018

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1940s

By Emily Temple | October 19, 2018

How to Open a Bookstore in Rural Scotland

How to Open a Bookstore in Rural Scotland

Learning the Hard Way Why George Orwell Disliked Being a Bookseller

By Shaun Bythell | September 6, 2018

11 Books (for Adults) Featuring Talking Animals

11 Books (for Adults) Featuring Talking Animals

From George Orwell to Yoko Tawada

By Emily Temple | August 17, 2018

James Traub and Margot Livesey: Decency vs. Moral Weakness

James Traub and Margot Livesey: Decency vs. Moral Weakness

Fiction/Non/Fiction, With Whitney Terrell
and V.V. Ganeshananthan">Episode 23 of Fiction/Non/Fiction, With Whitney Terrell
and V.V. Ganeshananthan

By Literary Hub | August 9, 2018

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

We Says About Us">What Yevgeny Zamyatin's We Says About Us

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 7, 2018

How to Copy Your Favorite Authors' Best Beach Looks

How to Copy Your Favorite Authors' Best Beach Looks

20 Famous Writers Swimming, Surfing, and Strolling by the Sea

By Emily Temple | July 13, 2018

Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II">The Young Anarchist and Future <emJoy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II">

Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II">The Young Anarchist and Future Joy of Sex Author Who Sparred with George Orwell Over World War II

"Alex Comfort Reveals Orwell as a More Problematic, but Also More Human, Figure"

By Eric Laursen | June 11, 2018

40 of the Best Villains in Literature

40 of the Best Villains in Literature

*Insert Evil Laugh Here

By Emily Temple | June 11, 2018

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