‘Jail Journey’ (review), Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. I No.6, June 1940

Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. I No.7, July 1940

‘Poltergeists’ (review), Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. II, No.9, September 1940

‘The Ruling Class’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. II, No.12, December 1940

‘Home Guard for Victory’ (review), Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume III, No. 15, March 1941

‘Wells, Hitler and the World State’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume IV, No.20, August 1941

‘The Art of Donald McGill’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume IV, No.21, September 1941

‘Why Not War Writers? A Manifesto’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume IV, No.22, October 1941

‘Anonymous response to Why Not War Writers?’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art. Volume IV, No.24, December 1941

‘Rudyard Kipling’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume V, No. 26, February 1942

‘The Sword and the Sickle’ (review), Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume VI, No. 31, July 1942

‘The Development of William Butler Yeats’ (review), Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume VII, No. 37, January 1943

‘Beggar my Neighbour’ (review), Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume VIII, No. 45, September 1943

‘Reply from author of Beggar my Neighbour’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume VIII, No. 47, November 1943

‘Raffles and Miss Blandish’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume X, No. 58, October 1944

‘Politics and the English Language’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume XIII, No. 76, April 1946

‘Questionnaire: The Cost of Letters’, Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume XIV, No. 81, September 1946

‘Books of 1947′ (review) Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art, Volume XVI, No. 96, December 1947

New Republic

‘Confessions of a Book Reviewer’, New Republic, August 5, 1946 (originally published in Tribune 3 May, 1946)

‘It Looks Different from Abroad’, New Republic December 2, 1946

Polemic: A Magazine of Philosophy, Psychology & Aesthetics

‘Notes on Nationalism’ was Orwell’s first article for Polemic, a short-lived journal (1945-1947) edited by Humphrey Slater and owned by the Australian ex-communist, Rodney Phillips (who sold Orwell a Luger when he was feeling paranoid, after the publication of Animal Farm, about Russian spies trying to assassinate him). On 3 July 1945, Orwell signed a contract for several more articles. It is interesting to note that the witness to Phillips’s signature was Celia Kirwan, the twin of Arthur Koestler’s wife, Mamaine. Kirwan, who rejected Orwell’s proposal of marriage, was to infamously extract a list of notable writers and other people he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the anti-communist propaganda activities of the Information Research Department.

‘The Prevention of Literature’, Polemic. No. 2. January 1946. pp. 4-13.

‘Second Thoughts on James Burnham’, Polemic No. 3, May 1946

‘Politics versus Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels’, Polemic, No. 5, September-October 1946

Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool, Polemic. No. 7. March 1947. pp. 2-17.

Partisan Review

Partisan Review (1934-2003) was an influential American left-wing literary journal first published, by the Communist John Reed Club of New York, in 1934. By the end of the decade it had become more literary and politically anti-Stalinist. In late 1940 Desmond Hawkins suggested to the editors that Orwell, his friend and colleague at the BBC, should replace him writing the “London Letter”. Orwell wrote for the journal from early 1941, until a few months before he died. ‘Such, Such Were the Joys’ was published in the journal posthumously in 1952. The editor and one of the founders, William Phillips (1907-2002), wrote astutely about Orwell in 1984:

“Perhaps the most impressive English writer was George Orwell, whom I saw on a subsequent trip, in a hospital, shortly before he died. He had just received a Partisan Review award of a thousand dollars. I was afraid I was tiring him, but he wanted to talk, and I stayed for a couple of hours. Perhaps I was romanticising a dying figure and reading the moral and intellectual dimensions of his writing into his person, but what struck me was the self-possession, the lack of self-pity, and the impression of utter seriousness, without any of the bright conversation one associated with men of letters in London. He was extraordinarily well informed, and even then, evidently at the end of his life, he wanted to know about everything going on in literature and politics. This is not the place to reassess his work, but it should be noted that the recent questions that have been raised about Orwell’s work stem largely from the reaction of the new left to his strong anti-Communism.”
A Partisan View: Five Decades of the Literary Life, pp. 209-210

‘London Letter’, Partisan Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, March-April 1941

‘London Letter’, Partisan Review, Vol 8, No. 4, July-August 1941

‘London Letter”’ Partisan Review, Vol. 8, No. 6, November-December 1941

‘Nicholas Moore vs. George Orwell’, Partisan Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, January-February 1942

‘The British Crisis’, Partisan Review, Vol. 9, No. 4, July-August 1942

‘London Letter’, Partisan Review, Vol. 9, Number 6 November-December 1942

‘A Letter from England’, Partisan Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, March-April 1943

‘The Situation in Britain’, Partisan Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, July-August 1943

‘London Letter’, Partisan Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1945

‘Reflections on Gandhi’, Partisan Review, Vol. 16, No.1, January 1949

‘Such, Such Were The Joys’, Partisan Review, Vol. 19, No.5, September-October 1952

The Observer

‘Portrait of a Drug Addict’, The Observer, Sunday 13 September, 1942

World Review

‘1984 and Newspeak’, World Review, May 1949

‘Unpublished Notebooks’, World Review, June 1950

Miscellany

‘Democracy in the British Army’ (review), The Left Forum No.36, September, Independent Labour Party, 1939. 34pp.

‘What Do Girls and Boys Read’, Life and Letters Today, Volume 26 Number 35, The Brendin Publishing Company, 1940

‘The Proletarian Writer’, The Listener, BBC, December 19th, 1940, Vol XXIV, No 623, pp 877-884.

‘T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets’ (review), Poetry London, Volume 2, No. 7. October-November, 1942. pp. 64, (This issue was dedicated to Eliot and Orwell reviewed the first three of Eliot’s Four Quartets (Burnt Norton, East Coker and The Dry Salvages pages 56-59)

‘In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse,’ The Windmill. June 1945, Volume 1, Number 2

‘A Hanging’, The New Savoy, New Savoy Press Limited, 1946

‘Why I Write’, Gangrel, Number 4, Summer 1946, Pick, J.B. (editor) Neill, Charles (associate editor)

‘How the Poor Die’, Now, Volume 6, London: G. Woodcock And Freedom Press, 1946. 72pp. (Collected all 16 issues of NOW which was a literary revue periodical published by Freedom Press sporadically from Easter 1940 through August 1947 and edited by George Woodcock).

‘The Prevention of Literature’, Atlantic Monthly, March 1947

‘The Heart of the Matter’ (review), The New Yorker, July 17, 1948

‘Thirty Five Years Hence’ and ‘Orwell’s Strange World of 1984’, Life, July 4, 1949, pp. 18, 78-86.

Monde

Blair, E.A., ‘John Galsworthy’, Monde, Numero 42, 23rd March, 1929 (recently procured in Paris)

Der Monat

Orwell, George, 1984, Der Monat. Jg. 2, 1949, Nr. 14. (German serialised translation of 1984 in The Month. Vol. 2, 1949, No. 14).

Orwell, George, 1984, Der Monat. Jg. 2, 1949, Nr. 15. (German serialised translation of 1984 in The Month. Vol. 2, 1949, No. 15)

Orwell, George, 1984, Der Monat. Jg. 2, 1950, Nr. 16. (German serialised translation of 1984 in The Month. Vol. 2, 1950, No. 16)

Orwell, George, 1984, Der Monat. Jg. 2, 1950, Nr. 17. (German serialised translation of 1984 in The Month. Vol. 2, 1950, No. 17)

Orwell, George, 1984, Der Monat. Jg. 2, 1950, Nr. 18. (German serialised translation of 1984 in The Month. Vol. 2, 1950, No. 18)

NOTE: Der Monat was founded by Melvin J. Lasky, an American journalist, intellectual, and member of the anti-Communist left.

On Orwell

Auden, WH; Isherwood, Christopher, ‘Young British Writers – on the Way Up’, Vogue, August, 15, 1939

Fen , Elisaveta, ‘George Orwell’s First Wife”, The Twentieth Century. August 1960 (12-page article)

Fyvel, T.R., ‘A Case For George Orwell?’ Twentieth Century, 1956, 252-259pp.  (Disbound. 8 pages separated from the original magazine)

Fyvel. T.R., “George Orwell and Eric Blair: Glimpses of a Dual Life”, Encounter, Vol. XIII, No. 1, July, 1959, pp. 60-65

Heppenstall, Rayner, ‘The Shooting Stick”’ Twentieth Century, April 1955, No. 938, p. 370.

Hoggart, Richard, “Orwell and the Biographer’s Art”, The Listener, 27th November, 1980

Orwell, George, “Some Letters”, Encounter, Vol XVIII No. 1, January, 1962, pp. 55-65

Powell, Anthony, “George Orwell: A Memoir”, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 220, October 1967, pp 62-68

Symons, Julian, ‘George Orwell, a Reminiscence’, The London Magazine: A Monthly Review of Literature, London September 1963, Vol. 3, Number 6

‘George Gissing Novels’, The London Magazine: A Monthly Review of Literature, London, 1960, (Disbound. 8 pages separated from the original magazine)

Walter, Nicolas, “George Orwell: an accident in society”, Anarchy: A Journal of Anarchist Ideas. No. 8, October 1961, London: Freedom Press pp 225-256

Willison, Ian, ‘Orwell’s Bad Good Books’, Twentieth Century, 1955, 354-66pp. (Disbound. 12 pages separated from the original magazine)