Billy Bunter and the Man from Animal Farm
A look back at the 20th century’s most entertaining literary spat—one of the few such encounters that Orwell emphatically lost.
David Cohen
· 15 min read
George Orwell
A collection of 10 posts
Reading Orwell in the Age of AI
Prescient about the possibility of machine-generated writing, George Orwell’s life and work offer a deeper warning about the LLM era.
Matt Johnson
· 24 min read
André Gide versus George Orwell: Two Paths to Truth
More than a century after it was first published, ‘If It Die’—Gide’s shockingly candid account of his childhood and sexual awakening—remains a gripping read.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
George Orwell’s Error
Had he lived long enough to witness the fruits of liberal capitalism, perhaps Orwell would finally have accepted the failure of socialism.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 13 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 7 min read
Politics and the English Language, 2023
The continued relevance of George Orwell’s landmark 1946 essay.
George Case
· 8 min read
There's (a Lot) More to George Orwell than Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell represents one of those strange cases where a writer’s reputation predominantly rests, if not on his worst, then certainly his least typical book.
Herman Goodden
· 10 min read
Songs from Orwell’s Glass Asylum
Bowie’s album beautifully captures the essential romance in the story.
David Cohen
· 10 min read
PODCAST 73: George Orwell's biographer on the 70th anniversary of his death
Listen onSpotify Richard Bradford, author of Orwell: A Man of Our Time, talks to Toby Young about why Orwell still has a great deal to teach us 70 years after his death. You can read Richard’s recent piece about how Orwell anticipated both Brexit and Boris Johnson’s election
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
The next three months, between now and October 31st, will reveal whether that was a historical premonition or a sophomoric illusion.
Toby Young
· 20 min read