How George Orwell Inspired Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo Journalism
Hunter S. Thompson’s primary muse was not F. Scott Fitzgerald, but rather George Orwell and his fact-bending 1933 memoir, Down and Out in Paris and London.
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Orwellian Times: On Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’
Manic Street Preachers’ The Ultra Vivid Lament is driven by George Orwell’s aim to make political writing into art.
George Orwell as Essayist: The Democratic Socialist Who Never Sought a Safe Space
George Orwell's essays -- so urgently relevant in these times -- convey the political and social views he would later express in his fiction.
On George Orwell’s Long-lost Human Rights Manifesto
A newly discovered document sheds important light on the author, his thought, and the struggle against authoritarianism, as discussed with Orwell researcher David Smith.
From Anarchism to Pacifism: Reflections on George Orwell
Two AK Press titles, Between the Bullet and the Lie and The Duty to Stand Aside, show there's no shortage of important ideas to be plumbed from George Orwell's vast and complex oeuvre.
Imagine Fighting Fascism
Two recently translated works -- Lydie Salvayre's Cry, Mother Spain and Joan Sales' Uncertain Glory -- bring to life the profound complexity of an early struggle against fascism, the Spanish Civil War.
Even Orwell Can’t Get Us Through a Trump Presidency
There’s nothing about Trump and his splenetic short-attention-span nature that speaks to the cold and calculating mindset of the capable authoritarian.
As George Orwell Might Appreciate, This New Biography Abounds in Piety and Wit
As with Orwell’s writing style, very little goes to waste here, and John Sutherland's work is a remarkable achievement of synthesis.
Christopher Hitchens’ Posthumous Anthology, ‘And Yet…’, and Yet There Is More
Why reprint what's already available, as done here, if a bounty of miscellanea is still uncollected?
The Political Allegory in ‘White God’ Has Quite the Bite
White God ferociously tells a universal story about the ties that bind us, and the forces that try to tear them apart.
Ecologizing the Political: Scapegoating, the Naturalistic Metaphor, and Propaganda
Metaphors reliant on "phobias" and "plagues" pass the buck to future generations, as if we have no control over our situations, when we in fact do.