National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Mar 11, 2017
2017 looks more like '1984' than 1984 ever did
by Michael Hoffman
Goerge Orwell's "1984" is a fitting best-seller for 2017, a year of "post-truth," "fake news" and "alternative facts."
World / Offbeat Aug 15, 2014
George Orwell executor accuses Amazon of dystopian crime of doublespeak
The literary executor of George Orwell's estate is accusing Amazon of committing an Orwellian crime: doublespeak. In a letter published this week in The New York Times, Bill Hamilton criticized the online retailer for "turning the facts inside out" by alleging that the British author known ...