An omnipotent dictator controls the whereabouts and movements of the citizenry. Surveillance cameras constantly monitor the public. Words and songs chosen by the government keep the masses pacified.

There are few books published in the last 100 years as iconic as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. There are arguably even fewer as good. There are none as regularly invoked in everyday discussion ...

Peter Marks receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Simon Potter does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

“It was funny, really, it was like falling in love,’’ he says. “At the time you don’t realise it but later, when I was telling everyone I was going to adapt it, it was like, ‘Yeah, you were always ...

More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...