Our relationship with technology is quickly becoming one of the most discussed topics of our time. Whether it be the inevitability of AI or social media’s turn to consumerism, the… Read more »

Hofstra University, in the Long Island town of Hempstead, is a relatively young university—founded just eighty-three years ago—and its campus, which spans both sides of a four-lane turnpike, boasts a fairly odd combination of… Read more »

We’ve written a lot recently about unfortunate goings-on in China, where President Xi Jinping has been busily consolidating his power for the past several years. As we wrote in November: When the CCP… Read more »

The resistance is bookish! The sign in San Francisco’s The Booksmith shop read, “Read up! Fight Back! A mystery benefactor has bought these copies of 1984 for you if you… Read more »

One of the splashier pieces of book-news-during-the-Apocalypse has (alongside the ongoing S&S trainwreck) been the cultural ascendancy of George Orwell’s 1984, which we covered at length a few weeks ago.… Read more »

There’s no question that this election has been an unending horror show, draining us of our will to live, or at least to talk to people who hold different (wrong)… Read more »

Thursday, no two ways about it, is one of the slow days. With the week no longer young, and the promise of Friday still hanging elusively around the bend of… Read more »

Amazon has always had a complicated relationship with George Orwell. As we’ve reported before, the online retailer has misquoted Orwell, tried to claim him as its own, and made a… Read more »

A Cairo University student was arrested last weekend, and rumors immediately began to circulate that his possession of a copy of 1984 by George Orwell was a big part of… Read more »

PEN America recently finished a 62 day Surveillance Metaphor Mapping Project, tracking the language that journalists use most often to describe government surveillance. They looked at 133 articles, by 105… Read more »