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Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century in Franklin, TN
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Winner of the 2025 Goldsmith Book Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A
New Yorker
Best Book of 2024 For the 75th anniversary of
1984
, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.
George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel
have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism.
In
Orwell’s Ghosts
, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system—to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism.
Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking,
investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
New Yorker
Best Book of 2024 For the 75th anniversary of
1984
, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.
George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel
have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism.
In
Orwell’s Ghosts
, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system—to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism.
Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking,
investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
Winner of the 2025 Goldsmith Book Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A
New Yorker
Best Book of 2024 For the 75th anniversary of
1984
, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.
George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel
have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism.
In
Orwell’s Ghosts
, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system—to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism.
Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking,
investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
New Yorker
Best Book of 2024 For the 75th anniversary of
1984
, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.
George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own—rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies—make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel
have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism.
In
Orwell’s Ghosts
, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work—his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system—to examine what “Orwellian” truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of “fake news” and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism.
Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking,
investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
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