George Orwell Archives

George Orwell

Apocalypse Always

by Walter Kirn,

As a teenager in the Mormon Church, I was led to believe I might live to see the world end — the fallen world of sin and imperfection, that is, which…

Revisionist History

by John Reed,

Is George Orwell's Animal Farm based on the work of a nineteenth-century Russian writer?

Poison Apples

by Rebecca Solnit,

Thirty years ago, Apple Computer launched a new product with a messianic commercial in which legions of blank-faced, coverall-clad workers march, as if in a trance, through a strange industrial…

Operation Margarine

by Nina Martyris,

Tracing the wartime rise of ersatz butter

Future as Parable

by John Crowley,

By John Crowley, from a lecture delivered in June at MoMA PS1 as part of Triple Canopy’s Speculations (“The future is ”) series. Crowley’s article “Madame and the Masters” appeared…

Bed-wetting

by Christine Smallwood,

Whereas child bed wetters in sixteenth-century England had been directed for their malady to consume the testicles of a hedgehog or the windpipe of a cock, Enlightenment science, which rejected…