Itemoids

Orwell

since

auto-detected in 106 stories

5 days ago

20 days ago

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope

Raja Shehadeh – lawyer, ac…

45 days ago

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniser

Richard Blair di…

51 days ago

Universality by Natasha Brown review – clever satire of identity politics

Slyly investigating language and bias in media culture, this follow-up to Assembly confirms Brown as one of the most intelligent voices writing today

Should your social media occasionally present you …

61 days ago

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

In March 1984 Polish customs officers noticed a suspicious truck. It had arrived on an overnight ferry from …

77 days ago

84 days ago

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

Journalist, novelist …

90 days ago

Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit

But it’s important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like

All those lists and instructions and editorials on how to resist authoritarianism and stand up for human rights, the rule of law…

3 months ago

page 1 of 2 last →|