Tag: essay

March 2015: My Reading
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.” Liu Cixin March has been an exciting month of science fiction reading and some progress has […]
“Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.” Liu Cixin March has been an exciting month of science fiction reading and some progress has […]
This post has been updated. Read this one. “He hated Scotsmen!” Kay Ekevall “He wrote under the name ‘Orwell’, partly because he preferred separate identity as an author, partly […]
It is not a New Year’s resolution but I intend to write one blog post a month about what I’ve been reading. Usually I write a roundup of books enjoyed […]
“Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior to viewing the Tribeca film festival […]
“I have heard briefly from Edith Morgan, at Christmas. She was visiting in Rome.” […]
Did Orwell smoke opium in Burma?
George Orwell spent five years working as a police officer during the 1920s before unexpectedly resigning to become a writer. There is compelling circumstantial evidence […]