Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orwell: 2+2 = 5 There are two ways to think about “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the great dystopian novel of totalitarianism that George ...

When he was 19 years old, still eons away from the essays, the novels, and the pseudonym that would grant him literary immortality, Eric Arthur Blair went east and joined the Indian Imperial Police in ...

At a time when so many major Hollywood distributors are avoiding political stories for fear of offending or provoking, the new documentary Orwell: 2+2=5 is refreshingly direct. The director, Raoul ...

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 ...

“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 new documentary "Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell's life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...

Raoul Peck, who will be at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his George Orwell documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” delivered a blistering warning about the global rise of autocracy this week at ...

For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its connections to ...

There are two ways to think about "Nineteen Eighty-Four," the great dystopian novel of totalitarianism that George Orwell wrote on the Scottish isle of Jura and published in 1949, six months before ...