In lockdown you have plenty of time to think things through and realise what is most important in our brief journey on this planet.
Age readers on the Liberal Party push for female MP quotas,Scott Morrison’s response to accusations of sexual misconduct in Parliament House,restrictions on electric vehicles in Australia and Dark Mofo’s decision to cancel a controversial piece of art.
1984 has reached No.1 spot on Amazon's top-selling book list over the weekend. Too bad few people citing the book's dystopian horrors in earnest seem to understand the usage.
The revolutionary heart of Sydney’s New Theatre beats loud in this new adaptation of a George Orwell classic.
Two new books on the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four take differing approaches.
We don't want our dictionaries telling us what to think. Their credibility depends on them remaining a neutral,objective arbiter of meaning.
The world's population is currently under routine surveillance in a manner that would have made George Orwell blanch. We could be using that to our favour.
A whole world of experience is in danger of being lost as libraries are dumped for shallow gadgets.
Smart CCTV cameras can now identify people simply by their walk and mannerisms.
Seventy years after the death of George Orwell,2+2 still equals 4,but only just.
The English novelist George Orwell,best known for his harrowing dystopias and opposition to totalitarianism,died 70 years ago today. We revisit his obituary.