Eighty years of ‘Animal Farm’: Why we keep reading Orwell
The British writer was satirizing Stalinism in his novel, but the story is a warning against any form of totalitarianism and a defense of independence, intelligence and, above all, humanity
Tom Sharpe: A Nazi father, beatings, sexual repression and a final idyll in Catalonia
A new biography of the British satirist explores the controversial and complex figure of the creator of ‘Wilt’ on the 10th anniversary of his death on the Costa Brava