Many thanks once again for Terry Teachout’s post on Houston Alley Theatre’s production of 1984, available online through April 12. More information can be found at their website [Note: link no longer available], and the playbill can be found on issuu. I’ve found Terry’s blog extremely informational and enjoyable. His posts in the last few […]
Tag: George Orwell
Starting August 9th, The Orwell Prize will begin running the entry from George Orwell’s diary that was written 70 years ago. Here is the introduction from The Orwell Diaries page, where the entries will be posted: ‘When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind […]
I found George Orwell’s essay on Rudyard Kipling recently. It appears Orwell was responding to a T.S. Eliot essay that prefaced selections of Kipling’s poetry as well as an essay by Edmund Wilson. While much of the review is about the poetry itself (Orwell’s take in a nutshell—third-rate, but a guilty pleasure that speaks to […]