George Orwell, the author of two classic anti-totalitarian, pro-freedom novels from the 1940s, was a democratic socialist ...

More than any other phrase, it explains why this small book still looms large 80 years after its publication. The rebellion, ...

Animal Farm is a melancholy reflection on the corruption of revolution – and the need to keep looking for a better one.

On its 80th anniversary, Animal Farm remains relevant not because it predicts one political ideology’s failings, but because ...

A witty satire on the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and Stalinism, the novel transcends its historical boundaries. It ...

The specific case against Stalin in Animal Farm regards the Bolshevik Revolution. Upon Lenin’s death in 1922, Stalin jockeyed ...

It was one of the first books that grabbed my attention as a young adult, and it turned into a gateway drug to Orwell’s 1984, ...

Like the even more celebrated "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), Orwell's "Animal Farm" — marking its 80th anniversary this month ...

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is a crucial book for understanding rising authoritarianism. We need it more than ever.

George Orwell pretty much invented the dystopian future genre, with novels like 1984 and Animal Farm still finding relevance and new readers today. The latter novel, however, is set to become an ...