Each round forces players to make the decision to obey or rebel; the goal of the game is to fulfill five Directives and for players to reach their secret Aspiration. This game is for one to five ...

Big Brother. 2+2=5. The memory hole. "Truth isn’t truth." Sound familiar? They’re from George Orwell’s dark masterpiece, "1984." OK, not all of those phrases. That last one, "Truth isn’t truth," ...

George Orwell never went down the memory hole, but a layer of gray dust settled over his work after the Cold War. His two great dystopias, “Animal Farm” and “1984,” calcified into high school classics ...

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave ...

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 ...

With permission from the Orwell estate, Sandra Newman's latest novel takes place in the same world and with many of the same characters as 1984, but retold through the eyes of Winston Smith's love ...

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." In a power-hungry world filled with "alternative facts," George Orwell's ...