George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about the state of politics if he was alive today, his son has told the BBC. Richard Blair was speaking on the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth.

Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was a writer and political commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his early death in 1950 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone ...

George Orwell escaped to a remote Scottish ... and he would write or type for the morning Orwell's adopted son, Richard Blair, doesn't remember it quite like that. He was just turning two when ...

In “Burma Sahib,” the renowned novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of young Eric Blair (the future ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

A high school teacher from the NSW South Coast has "out-scholared" academics from around the world, blogging his way to ...

The adaptation has been officially endorsed by the Orwell Estate with Richard Blair, George Orwell’s son, calling it “sensational” with a “brilliant cast”. The cast also features Romesh ...

Sonia Brownell (1918–1980) married George Orwell in 1949 because he said it would help him recover his health. Unfortunately, the marriage proved no panacea for tuberculosis, and 14 weeks after ...

Elizabeth Blair is a Cultural Trends Correspondent for ... and reported the origins of the children's classic Curious George. Among her all-time favorite interviews are actors Octavia Spencer ...

Presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, Mark Lawson, considers George Orwell's time at the BBC. John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like ...