Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, intro. by Christopher Hitchens. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-871-40410-7 Reviewed by David Brooks. George Orwell has become a literary saint ...

George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about the state of politics if he was alive today, his son has told the BBC. Richard Blair was speaking on the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth.