The big thinkers at Aperture explain how George Orwell’s 1984 tried to warn us.

George Orwell wrote '1984' while dying of tuberculosis in a remote Scottish farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, typing the manuscript in bed because he was too weak to sit, and the house still draws ...

Thanks to the dystopian works of George Orwell, we now have the term “Orwellian” to describe real-world examples of the themes presented in his books.

You are a slow learner, Winston,” said O’Brien gently. “How can I help it?” he blubbered. “How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.” —George Orwell, “1984” On Jan. 7, ...

Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's ambitious documentary attempts to pay tribute to George Orwell's visionary novel '1984,' but ...

The benefits of surveillance are vastly outweighed by the costs.

Six years ago, I embarked on a journey to understand how technology affects society — for better and for worse — and what to ...

The goal is not to raise money, officials say, but rather to nudge cheaters out of the lanes and lower the toll for commuters ...

Any avid reader will tell you that books have a magic that nothing else can dare to replicate. Entire worlds can be written, printed, and then read by countless people whose lives could potentially ...

This March, Teatru Manoel, presents a new production of George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 as part of TOI TOI Classics. Directed by Petra Sant, this award-winning production by Robert Icke and ...

The truth is that Hong Kong today is a bizarre and cruel mix of George Orwell’s 1984 and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. In the trial scene in Alice in Wonderland, the Queen demands “sentence ...

Three years ago, a rainstorm rocked my family’s house in Minnesota. The thunder roared so loudly the power lines lost their nerve — and so did we, hunkering down in the basement with a flashlight and ...