This article has been published to coincide with Episode Six of Mashable's new podcast, Fiction Predictions. Listen here. George Orwell's 1984 turns 70 this June, yet it feels more prophetic than ever ...

Remember high school English class reading assignments? Sometimes those dense classics were even enough to make the booklovers in the classroom groan. But every now and then, an assigned reading would ...

Edmond O'Brien and Jan Sterling during the filming of a 1956 adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 Harry Todd / Fox Photos / Getty Images In recent years, some conservative American groups have adopted ...

The Orwellian dystopia has become a “worst-case scenario” in the realm of technological advancements, but one cannot help but wonder if we have taken steps in a similar direction already. Our 2024 isn ...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars, has topped electronic ...

It’s entirely possible that producers Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman – who’ve brought Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s frequently harrowing adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 to Broadway after three ...

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