America is socialist, dummy
Let us count the ways…
George orwell
Saturday
Tuesday
Finding the Lost Girls
D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London
Friday
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
Saturday
Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a guidebook for the present day
A powerful totalitarian state is no longer needed to coerce human beings
Wednesday
The problem with the new Animal Farm
Four legs good, two films bad?
Friday
Brave New World Revisited, revisited
We’ve grown increasingly obsessed with dystopian narratives since 2016. But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?
