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Country diary: Eye to eye with a weary toad

Birchen Edge, Derbyshire: This one, the largest I’d seen for a while, had narrowly escaped my boot as it paused in the sunshine

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10, 2023

Orwellian nightmares: What I learned about today’s rage culture from rewriting 1984

‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dystopian classic speak so powerfully to our current moment?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2023

The Things We Can't Say

As the culture war permeates American life, combatants set their sights on the ways we express ourselves.

Reason · Sep 14, 2023

Dracula may have wept blood: study

From George Orwell to Vlad the Impaler, this novel form of analytical chemistry is enhancing how we view history

Salon · Aug 24, 2023

On This Day: George Orwell's classic 'Animal Farm' was published on August 17, 1945

It was on this day (August 17) in 1945 when George Orwell's classic novella 'Animal Farm' was published. And the rest, as they say, is history.

The Times of India · Aug 17, 2023

Wifedom by Anna Funder review – Mrs Orwell comes up for air

The Stasiland author re-examines the short life of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in an effort to give her a voice

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2023

'George Orwell claimed that all Scots were whisky-swilling imperialists'

GEORGE Orwell was born Eric Blair on 25 June 1903. Thirty years later, when his first book was published, the name on the cover was not the…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 13, 2023

George Orwell's 'Scotophobia' – and how he overcame it – explored in new book

GEORGE Orwell’s “Scotophobia”, and how he overcame it while writing his masterpiece 1984 on the Hebridean island of Jura, is explored in an…

The National (Scotland) · Aug 13, 2023

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder review – inside a troubled marriage

This feminist reimagining of the fierce and witty Eileen O’Shaughnessy strips her of agency all over again

The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2023

The Guardian view on invisible women: cancelled by history, restored with care

Editorial: A new book on George Orwell’s first wife examines how Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s life was erased

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023