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1984: How did the Isle ofJura shape George Orwell's masterpiece?
BBC News· 6 hours ago1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's masterpiece? George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published 75 years ago on Saturday. It is the story ...
What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoIn recent years, some conservative American groups have adopted the slogan “Make Orwell fiction again,” a line that suggests the dystopian depictions of...
Banishing Captain Underpants: An investigation of the 3,400 books pulled in Iowa.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 days agoData from the American Library Association shows a dramatic increase in book removals in recent...
The West’s choice in 2024: will it be more like 1944 or Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Daily Telegraph· 10 hours agoRishi Sunak rightly apologised. How great was the slight he offered to the D-Day celebrations by...
Kafkaesque nightmare or Orwellian hell: which dystopia are we currently living in?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoEIn the upcoming Radio 4 series Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop recounts being told off by a reader of...
Seven memoirs help explain Europe past and present
The Economist· 13 hours agoA GOOD MEMOIR tells you a lot about a person, and even more about the times they lived in. Europe’s Sturm und Drang is like a recurring character in the...
GOP Rep. Compares Trump’s Conviction To Nazis' Rise To Power In 1930s Germany
HuffPost· 1 day ago“The similarities to what the Democrat Party has been doing, they cannot be denied,” Rep. Derrick...
'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library
BBC News· 5 days agoIf the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places. In this town, a...
Review: ‘The Machine Stops’ by E.M. Forster reminds us to cherish authentic human connection
Los Angeles Times· 1 day agoIt presents a reality where people are slowly losing their humanity due to a lack of connection with...
Bestselling books this week at Southern California’s independent bookstores
Orange County Register· 3 days agoSee the top-selling book releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks and...