I love this passage:
At least, cut off from the irritations of literary London,…
I love this passage:
At least, cut off from the irritations of literary London, he was free to grapple unencumbered with the new novel. “Smothered under journalism,” as he put it, he told one friend, “I have become more and more like a sucked orange.
That’s from a nice piece about the writing of 1984, from the Observer.
The roster of people who’ve snubbed the Queen reveals as much covert vanity as it does quiet principle
Every day, Zoran Milich walks the streets of New York City, camera in hand
It’s a pity to let the naysayer role obscure valid insights into Internet-savvy authoritarian regimes
If you do just one thing today, it should be to watch the trailer for ‘Iron Sky’
The roots of a tortured clan
His way of forcing the reader to see and smell the squalor of 19th century England is still unmatched in its moral force
