Features
Friday, June 19 2009
Bumming Smokes in Paris and London: George Orwell’s Obsession with Tobacco
Cigarette smoke so permeates George Orwell’s stories it almost leaves stains on one’s fingers when reading his books.
Friday, June 12 2009
Love Your Big Brother: What Orwell’s ‘1984’ Tells Us About 2009
George Orwell’s seminal book can equip its readers with the intellectual apparatus necessary to see through the routine mendacity and stupefying barrage of euphemism that plagues contemporary political life.
Friday, December 19 2008
George Orwell: Forgiving and Championing Bad Art
Orwell's essays remind us that better than our best intentions is our inescapable nature, our shared ordinariness, which will always have the potential to redeem us all if only we will embrace it.
Columns
Tuesday, August 19 2008
Me, Myself & BBCi: Who's Watching Whom
The extensive use of mirrors in the Big Brother house behind which many of the cameras are hidden means that when the contestants hear the voice of authority, it is their own reflexion that they see back.
News
Thursday, February 11 2010
George Orwell was as important to language as he was to ideas
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the death of perhaps the most influential English writer of the 20th century, Eric Arthur Blair, better known…
