A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of ...

"Orwell: 2+2=5" led all films with seven nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday morning. The documentary by Raoul Peck (director of the ...

“Special military operation.” “Department of Government Efficiency.” “Enhanced interrogation techniques.” “Alternative facts.” We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate ...

In the last months of his life, writer George Orwell used the final embers of his energy to complete a novel that would become a classic of 20 th century literature: 1984. More than 75 years after its ...

From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship and book bans in the US.