8 Facts Worth Knowing About '1984'
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Announcing Our 2026 Summer Book Club and Podcast
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George Orwell Past and Present: A Conversation with Biographer D.J. Taylor
George Orwell's Surprising Stance on Hypocrisy
George Orwell was deeply concerned about hypocrisy—but in the opposite way you might expect. That’s what struck me about halfway through writing my new book The Hypocrisy Trap. Orwell spent his career hacking away at humbug and falsehoods and famously warned how language gets corrupted by “a gap
