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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, 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
Friday, January 22 2010
Curse Ye, Orwell!
Orwell declared that there are “four great motives” for writing: sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. As for the rest of us...
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.
Reviews
Tuesday, September 16 2008
The Same Man by David Lebedoff
Orwell and Waugh’s discomfort with modernity and opposition to totalitarianism does not make them moral writers, but it does make them political writers and social critics
Blogs
Friday, July 15 2011
TV’s Most Memorable Commercials
This year is the 70th anniversary of the first TV commercial, so we cast our glance back at the some of the most memorable ads of all time.
Wednesday, December 3 2008
It’s All Part of Der Process
Of course, it scarcely suffices to look at what we’ve wrought at Guantánamo and abroad and call it Orwellian or Kafkaesque.
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…
Media
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