The upcoming auction of Joan Didion’s belongings, from oversized sunglasses to iconic furniture only adds to our romanticised vision of the author’s persona.
Tag: George Orwell
Putin’s Brazen Manipulation of Language Is a Perfect Example of Orwellian Doublespeak
Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do – a practice diagnosed by political author George Orwell as ‘doublespeak,’ or the language of …
George Clooney’s ‘The Tender Bar’ Needs More Bar, Less Yale
'The Tender Bar' has its charms, but it stalls out with familiar tropes about working-class kids getting the hell out of the old neighbourhood.
Christopher Hitchens: The Gadfly the World Needs Today
Sometimes brash, always brilliant, but never boring, Christopher Hitchens was an enigma our present has no parallel for.