It’s Not Far From the Thousand Year Reich to ‘The Infinite State,’ But Gabriel Is New
Richard Swan’s new novel follows a new democracy setting up in the shadow of an oppressive interstellar empire
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1984
Back To Big Brother
Sandra Newman’s compelling new novel ‘Julia’ takes us to places Orwell hinted at in ‘1984’ and offers fresh insights into repressive states
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Bow Down Before ‘The Every’
In Dave Eggers’s sequel to ‘The Circle,’ a corporation grows bigger and more powerful, and everyone just falls in line
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The Boys Who Cried Orwell
Everything is Orwellian, apparently
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The Defiling of Miguel de Cervantes
Vandals in San Francisco desecrate a monument to the creator of the modern novel
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How George Orwell Made 1984
‘The Ministry Of Truth,’ a Definitive, if Very English, Biography of Modernity’s Most Prophetic Book
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How Close Are We To Dystopia? Despite What Michael Moore Says, Not Very.
A Novel By an Avant-Garde Genius Of The 1930s Offers Clarity
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