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Human life is very complicated. All of us are constrained by and sometimes hostage to things we cannot easily control or change and might be unwilling to change even if we could. In the new biography of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, author Anna Funder seems oblivious that factors other than a pernicious patriarchy might have shaped their relationship
Anna Funder explains how the search for Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a compelling figure strangely absent from Orwell’s writing, illuminated her own life
Leading authority on the life of George Orwell who edited the mammoth 20-volume George Orwell: The Complete Works
The once home to the newly wed Sir Winston is available to let to those with deep pockets
An article by Raymond S. Solomon about Stalinist repression during the Spanish Civil War.