Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens Basic, 208 pp., $24 GEORGE ORWELL was one of the best essayists of his time, and Christopher Hitchens is one of the best essayists of his. Orwell is famous ...

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Christopher Hitchens explains Why Orwell Matters, and does so with feeling. One can see that he identifies strongly with his countryman, the socialist daring to stand up against doublethink and ...

During the last century, George Orwell was arguably the world's most influential writer. Widespread reader reaction to his most famous novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four," weakened support for then ...

In his review of Scott Lucas’ “Orwell” [Nov. 9], Norman Birnbaum writes: “[Lucas] rightly describes as sordid Orwell’s surreptitious denunciation in 1949 of 36 other writers to the British ...

The New York Observer’s Ron Rosenbaum, who writes a column called “Edgy Enthusiast”, has proclaimed Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan the leading commentators in America on the war against ...