GEORGE ORWELL’S Animal Farm (1945) turned 80 on Aug. 17. If there’s one thing every student of history or politics knows, it’s that the novella is not really about animals. Sure, the principal ...

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

The British writer was satirizing Stalinism in his novel, but the story is a warning against any form of totalitarianism and ...

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

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

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

Written by visionary George Orwell, "Animal Farm," a political fable still studied all over the world, was published on this day in history, Aug. 17, 1945.

One of George Orwell 's best-known novels, Animal Farm, will be turned into a video game to be released sometime this Fall.

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 ...

I recently finished reading "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell and wondered whether the story's warning was as relevant today as it was when it was written. While it obviously pertained ...