The organizations behind Banned Books Week based this year's theme, "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights," on Orwell's sobering story to show we may be closer in real life to his dystopia than ...

George Orwell never went down the memory hole, but a layer of gray dust settled over his work after the Cold War. His two great dystopias, “Animal Farm” and “1984,” calcified into high school classics ...