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Will we ever know the real George Orwell?

27 May 2023 9:00 am

D.J. Taylor explores how the fracture between the person Orwell wanted to be and the person he seemed to be runs through his life and work

Dear Mary

23 September 2017 9:00 am

Q. Last year my husband and I stayed with a much-loved, but slightly airy-fairy friend in her house in Tuscany.…

The Dickin Medal is a morally dubious piece of nonsense

3 May 2014 9:00 am

Apparently, mice think that women are useless. I don’t mean that they think women mice are useless — they’re keen…

The day I discovered what worry was

19 April 2014 9:00 am

Before I had children I don’t think I appreciated what anxiety was. I’d been anxious at various points in my…