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We've passed the audition and are now holding starring roles in Animal Farm Takes Greece -- a remake of George Orwell's foretelling allegorical tale penned 67 years ago!
We've passed the audition and are now holding starring roles in Animal Farm Takes Greece -- a remake of George Orwell's foretelling allegorical tale penned 67 years ago!
Posted 04.10.2012
The title of Charlotta Westergren's new exhibition is "SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape." SERE is a military program that originated to tra...
Posted 12.30.2011
Animation has long experienced the stigma that it is a medium designed for children, yet examples can be seen that defy this classification. Many ...
Jim Sleeper | Posted 12.31.2011
Republican presidential debates, and even "liberal" magazines' online comment threads, are drawing hundreds eager to rail at clueless dissenters, especially if they can catch them bickering with one another.
flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...
Posted 07.16.2011
Most of us remember that time in our childhood when we picked up a book that we just couldn't put down. Our imaginations were such that it transported...
Ilana Garon | Posted 05.25.2011
Although education is certainly a factor in paving the road to economic recovery, college is not the right path for everyone.
Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011
You do not have to have read George Orwell to know that one of the most abused words in the English language is "reform." It is almost as bad as our penchant for reviving old labels with the word "neo."
io9.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Science fiction's greatest authors have brilliant ideas, storytelling mojo... and plenty of stubbornness. Many of the field's greatest writers were bu...
Posted 05.25.2011
In case you haven't heard, "Mockingjay," the third and final installment in Suzanne Collins' super-smash "Hunger Games" series, hit bookstores this Tu...
The Millions | Posted 05.25.2011
George Orwell never thought that his work would outlive him by much. After all, he considered himself "a sort of pamphleteer" rather than a genuine no...
The Guardian | Sean Michaels | Posted 05.25.2011
Sir Elton John is reportedly working on a stage adaptation of Animal Farm, teaming up with the writer of Billy Elliot, for a musical version of Georg...
Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011
While there should be nothing inevitable about his candidacy, he has the energy and the experience to run a great campaign. Brown just needs to show a little more ganas: will, desire, motivation.
The Guardian | Andrew O'Hagan | Posted 05.25.2011
From Achilles' horse to Lassie, animals provide moral authority and sympathy in fiction, often giving voice to the silenced and oppressed. Andrew O'Ha...
Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1905, Mark Twain published the pamphlet King Leopold's Soliloquy, an imaginary defense of imperialism in the Congo in which the King of Belgium adm...
Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011
America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.
Marc Hershon | Posted 05.25.2011
Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.
Paul Szep | Posted 05.25.2011
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Maria Paravantes | Posted 04.19.2012