Tag: Orwell
Ian McEwan on George Orwell – Culture
It’s a neat idea to bring two famous English writers from widely separated eras into a kind of imaginary conversation. One, George Orwell (1903-1950), author of the world-famous political fable…
Was George Orwell anti-Semitic? – Culture
When a book collects George Orwell’s statements about Jews and anti-Semitism for the first time in our time, one inevitably asks oneself: Is it a contribution to eliminating a serious…
Heard, Read, Quoted: George Orwell – Culture
In a 1945 note on how the origins of anti-Semitism might be explored, George Orwell wrote: “What invalidates almost everything that is written about anti-Semitism is the assumption in the…
Radio play “1984” by George Orwell: Likes for Big Brother – Media
It doesn’t take much to put this story in a new context. Right at the beginning of the four-part radio play adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 Julia Gordon…
Monitoring gadget: for some wellness, for others Orwell culture
It wasn’t the new iPhones or the other fancy devices that Apple unveiled the week before last that got the company the most attention. But the announcement that the gadgets…