Volume 10   No. 1   (2025)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-854-2 Editorial Bumper Edition Packed with Delights for Orwellians – by Richard Lance Keeble Exclusive Background to the Novel – by D.J. Taylor The Inevitable Price - by David Holbrook Papers The Appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four: A New Perspective – by G. Alexander Denning Orwell, the Anglo-Indian – by Darcy Moore Interview 'Orwell makes fun of Winston a lot. And a lot of readers miss that' – Nathan Waddell interviews Sandra Newman, author of the internationally acclaimed Juliai Articles TikTok Live and the Digital Afterlife of Orwell's Big Brother – by Dean Hill Good, Dry or Substantially True: Orwell’s Late List of the Literature of the Stalinist State – by L.J. Hurst 'It's Orwellian!' 'No, It's Kafkaesque!': Parallel Literary Afterlives Nonpareil? – by John Rodden Reflections on the Nineteen Eighty-Four 'Trigger Warning' Media Storm – by Tim Crook Short Stories Two further extracts from Holding Up His Sky: Stories of Women in the Life of George Orwell – by Ann Kronbergs Review Essay Richard Lance Keeble on The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell, edited by Nathan Waddell Book Reviews Special A Bright Cold Day, by Nathan Waddell, reviewed by Richard Lance Keeble, followed by shorter, incisive reviews by Masha Karp, John Rodden, Jean Seaton and Richard Young Other Book Reviews Dean Hill on George Orwell and Communist Poland: ษmigr้, Official and Clandestine Receptions, by Krystyna Wieszczek; Richard Lance Keeble on Darkness in 1984, by Paul W.B. Marsden And Finally The Eileen Conundrum – by the anonymous columnist New Pitcher Volume 9   No. 2   (2024)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-848-1 Editorial Congrats to Darcy Moore on Winning Major Research Award – Richard Lance Keeble Front Cover The Fun of Playing with AI and Orwell's Portrait – David Ryan Papers The Significance of Goldstein in Nineteen Eighty-Four – G. Alexander Denning Echoes from the 'Beasts of England': Orwell's 1947 BBC Radio Adaptation of Animal Farm – Peter Marks and Simon J. Potter Orwell and Fisher: Rebellion and Realism – Patrick Homes High Praise and Critique: Tom Hopkinson's Early Assessment of George Orwell – Tim Crook Wyndham Lewis Reading (and Misreading?) George Orwell – Nathan Waddell Articles Dear Charoux: Revealed – Orwell's 13 Letters to his Artist Friend, by Darcy Moore Throwing Light on Darkness, by Paul W.B. Marsden 'Our command is "Thou art:"' Winston Smith's Fabricated Life in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, by Jan-Boje Frauen Interview L.J. Hurst interviews Nathan Waddell, author of A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell Poetry Inspired by Orwell 'The special patient', 'He rose above', 'Class', 'Room 101' and 'Railroad to Wigan' – Rob Joyson Review Essays John Newsinger on 'Perfidious Albion': Britain and the Spanish Civil War, by Paul Preston Paul Flewers on George Orwell and Russia, by Masha Karp Book Reviews L.J. Hurst on A Jura for Julia, by Ken MacLeod; Jackson Ayres on Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century, by Laura Beers; D. Harlan Wilson on 1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to George Orwell's 1984, by Brian May; Hassan Akram on Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism And Finally A sprinkling of updating gossip and insights for Orwellians: Reworkings – or Evidence of 'Convergent Evolution'?, by New Pitcher Volume 9   No. 1   (2024)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-839-9 Editorial Finally: The rat has a voice – by Richard Lance Keeble Short Story Nineteen Eighty-Four: The rat's tale – by D.J. Taylor Papers Love, hate and freedom in Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Peter Brian Barry The picture of Winston Smith: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde and the fin de si่cle legacy – by Henk Vynckier 'A sinking sensation': George Orwell and the RMS Titanic – by Nathan Waddell Modernism, realism and 'natural narrative': Contrasting 'A hanging' and 'Shooting an elephant' – by Cris Yelland Samuel Butler: The Victorian Orwell – by Hassan Akram Reading Orwell from the Global South – by D้bora Reis Tavares Orwell's middle age anxiety – by Carrie Kancilia Interview L.J. Hurst in conversation with Masha Karp, author of the widely-acclaimed George Orwell and Russia Articles Captain Robinson: 'The Most Disreputable Englishman in Mandalay' – by Phil Baker 'A disillusioned little middle class boy': George Orwell, Harry Pollitt and The Road to Wigan Pier – by John Newsinger How I constructed the Newspeak language from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Brennan Conaway Poems 'That bloody book', by John Scarborough; 'Elephant', 'George ponders dictatorship' and 'Shot but full', by Steve Dalzell Book Reviews Sarah E. Cornish on Julia, by Sandra Newman; Douglas Kerr on Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux And Finally A special diary column for Orwellians - by New Pitcher Volume 8   No. 2   (2024)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-834-4 Editorial Boom times for the Orwell Industry: A cause for celebration - by Richard Lance Keeble Papers George Orwell and Somerset Maugham: A comparative study - by Hassan Akram BBC transcript found: 'The meaning of scorched earth' - by Darcy Moore Article Eileen, '1984' and Nineteen Eighty-Four - by John Rodden Interview George Orwell Studies book reviews' editor Megan Faragher speaks with D.J. Taylor about his latest book, Orwell: The New Life Book Reviews Douglas Kerr on Beasts of England, by Adam Biles; Mir Ali Hosseini on The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War, by Peter Stansky; John Newsinger on The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6 and the Origin of Animal Farm, by John Reed; Richard Lance Keeble on Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex, by Eric Laursen; Megan Faragher on George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, by Peter Brian Barry Review Essay Wifedom: Fundamentally Flawed - by Richard Lance Keeble And Finally A new, lively, gossipy column by the appropriately anonymous New Pitcher to intrigue and entertain Orwellians Volume 8   No. 1   (2023)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-821-4 Guest Editorial Engaging Critically with a Writer who Can Still Surprise Us - by Nathan Waddell Papers Big Brother, Big Tech: Doctorow's Little Brother and Huber's Orwell's Revenge - by Jackson Ayres The Essayist's Velvet Fist - by Mir Ali Hosseini George Orwell's Gandhi - by Douglas Kerr What Was Orwell's Conception of Free Speech? - by Mark Satta The Labyrinths of Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Selina-Marie Scholz and Geoff Rodoreda Critically Ill: George Orwell, Tragic Biography and the Crisis of Endings - by Kristin Bluemel Other Papers John Bull's Other Airstrip: Orwell's Irish Blindspot - by Martin Tyrrell George Orwell, Ayer and Russell and the Battle for the Soul of Philosophy - by Peter Brian Barry Articles Orwell in Cornwall - by Darcy Moore The Achievement of Ian Angus - by John Rodden The BBC'S Nineteen Eighty-Four Remastered for a New Generation - by Hassan Akram Attwood's Imaginary Interview with Orwell - by Richard Lance Keeble Pedagogy of the Distressed?: 'Politics and the English language' in and out of the Classroom - by John Rodden Two Poems To George Orwell/Eric Blair - by Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland A Song for Orwell - by David Punter Tributes to the Founder of The Orwell Society Dione Venable's Contribution to the Development of Orwell Studies - by Quentin Kopp Dear Dione - by Darcy Moore Book Reviews Kristin Bluemel on George Orwell: The New Life, by D.J. Taylor; Bryan Yazell on The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950, by Luke Lewin Davies; Peter Brian Barry on George Orwell's Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech, by Glenn Burgess; Richard Lance Keeble on In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility, by Costica Bradatan And Finally New Pitcher (appropriately anonymous) launches a new, lively diary item to intrigue and entertain Orwellians Volume 7   No. 2   (2023)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-813-9 Editorial Peter Davison: A Giant Among Orwell Scholars - by Richard Lance Keeble Tributes 'The Complete Works: Clear, Reliable, Scrupulous - and Beautiful' - by Douglas Kerr 'Esteemed by Other Orwellians for his Readiness to Offer Help and Encouragement' - by Darcy Moore Farewell & Hail, Peter! - by John Rodden 'He Was Nothing if not a Completist!' - by Richard Young How Peter Lives on at Birmingham University - by Nathan Waddell 'Peter: My Wonderful, Supportive Friend for 10 years' - by Sylvia Topp 'Rather a Great Man' - by D.J. Taylor Why A Literary Life is One of the Best Studies of Orwell - by John Newsinger An 'Unparalleled Feat of Respect, Curiosity and Love' - by Dorian Lynskey Articles Ian Angus's Crucial Role in the Promotion of Orwell Studies - by John Lethbridge Introduction to Publication of Orwell's Original Manuscript for Nineteen Eighty-Four - by D.J. Taylor Richard Young on the Original 1984 Manuscript Big Brother Vladimir? - by John Rodden Book Reviews Martin Tyrrell on Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 came to be Published in Castro's Twilight, by Frederick Lavoie (translated by Donald Winkler); Tim Crook on The Radio Front: The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45, by Ron Bateman Volume 7   No. 1   (2022)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-808-5 Editorial The Special Art of Editing and Annotating - by Richard Lance Keeble Papers ‘A Great Prop of the School’: The Important Place of Sunderland Church High School in Understanding Eileen O’Shaughnessy - by Angela Smith Seeing What is In Front of One's Nose: George Orwell's Representation of Social Reality - by Dominic Angeloch Articles The Elephant in the Room: Reassessing the Genre of George Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' - by Carol Biederstadt Retracing Orwell's Steps in Wigan - Balancing Curiosity with Respect - by Timothy Foster Authors and Titles Mentioned in The Road to Wigan Pier - by L. J. Hurst Reflections on 'St Andrew's Day, 1935' - by Douglas Kerr Why He Joined the I. L. P: Orwell, Brockway and the Struggle for Socialism - by John Newsinger Mary Poppins at the Ministry of Tweets – by John Rodden Orwell's Rats – by Darcy Moore Book Reviews Darcy Moore on Orwell and Empire, by Douglas Kerr; Richard Lance Keeble on Complete Drama Reviews by George Orwell, edited by Cole Davis, Complete Book Reviews by George Orwell, edited by Cole Davis and Revenge is Sour: Lesser-Known Short Works by George Orwell, edited by Cole Davis; Dennis Glover on Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy, by John Rodden Volume 6   No. 2   (2022)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-800-9 Editorial Letters from Paris Throw New Insights on Orwell – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell and the Secret Intelligence Service - by Darcy Moore The Problem with Julia - by G. Alexander Denning Disassembling the Myth of the Struggling Artist in George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying - by Rebecca Clayton A Textbook Case: Aligning Orwell and NCTJ Teaching - by Jaron Murphy Articles Joyeux Anniversaires: Peter Stansky at 90, The Unknown Orwell at 50 - by John Rodden Retracing the Steps of Orwell and Dorothy Hare in Kent - by Neil Smith Orwell's Status as a Political Prophet on the Wane - by Nicholas Harris Beyond the 'Nancy Poet' Jibe: Orwell and Auden - by Richard Lance Keeble Orwell, Radio and the Propaganda War - by Ron Bateman In Search of Mแirํn Mitchell - by Martin Tyrrell Book Reviews Melissa Dinsman on Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine, by Will Loxley; Martin Tyrrell on Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White Re-Evaluation: Laurence Brander's George Orwell (1954) How One of the (Now Forgotten) First Studies of Orwell Captured the Man and his Writings - by Richard Lance Keeble Volume 6   No. 1   (2021)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-789-7 Editorial The Rich and Constantly Expanding Canon of George Orwell Studies – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers The True Artist: Poverty, Networking and Literary Artifice - by Darcy Moore Nineteen Eighty-Four: The First Sentence - by G. Alexander Denning 'V' is for Valencia: International Brigades' Counter-Intelligence Service Reports about Eileen and Eric Blair in Spain, 1937 - by Gleb Zilberstein, Svetlana Zilberstein and Pier Giorgio Righetti Fags, Facts, Fictions: Orwell and Cigarettes - by Richard Lance Keeble Orwell's Enduring Significance in Courts of Law – by Tim Crook Articles 'The Orwellian Nightmare Come True' - by John Newsinger A Writer Well Worth ... Stealing? - by John Rodden Bertrand Russell and the Forgotten Fallacy in Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Peter Brian Barry Orwell and the Important Muggeridge Archive Revelations - by Richard Lance Keeble Waughfully Good Books? Revisiting Brideshead and Animal Farm at 75 - by John Rodden and John Rossi Book Reviews Laura Hartmann-Villalta on The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom, and the Spanish Civil War, by Giles Tremlett; Peter Stansky on Orwell's Moustache, by Richard Lance Keeble Volume 5   No. 2   (2021)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-782-2 Editorial Dangers of Exploiting 'Brand Orwell' – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell in Burma: The Two Erics – by Darcy Moore Colonial Collections: Investigating the Libraries of Burmese Days – by Sarah Gibbs Orwell's Stolen Camera: Photographic Authority and Homage to Catalonia – by Ameya Tripathi O'Brien in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A New Interpretation – by G. Alexander Denning George Orwell on the Relationship Between Food and Thought – by Mark Satta The Pleasures and Politics of Food – by Richard Lance Keeble The George Orwell and H. G. Wells Row: Gain and Loss in the Utopian and Dystopian Feud – by Tim Crook Articles In Defence of Eileen (and of Orwell) – by Sylvia Topp New Editions of the Works of George Orwell – as noted by L. J. Hurst Orwelliana – A Writer’s Life in a Collection – by Richard Young Obituaries Two tributes to Philip Bounds by Richard Lance Keeble and John Newsinger Plus Book reviews by Elysia Balavage, Tim Crook, Nick Hubble and Luke Young Volume 5   No. 1   (2020)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-774-3 Editorial Explaining One of Orwell's Strange Prejudices – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell's Scottish Ancestry and Slavery – by Darcy Moore Menon, Orwell and the Yeats Fascism Debate – by Jaron Murphy Orwell, Advertisements and the Political Economy of the Media – by Richard Lance Keeble Eric and Alaric: Orwell and his Shadow – by Tim Crook Articles Each Herself – Fact, Fiction and Female Identity – by Ann Kronbergs The H๔pital Cochin and the Extraordinary Life (And Death) of Marthe Hanau – by John P. Lethbridge Thoughtcrime im Zimmer 101 – by John Rodden How TB Can be Traced in ‘Forgotten’ Spanish Civil War Letter – by Gleb Zilberstein, Svetlana Zilberstein and Pier Giorgio Righetti Plus Film Review, Book Reviews, Radio Review and Review Essay Volume 4   No. 2   (2020)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-763-7 Editorial How the Spotlight is Increasingly Falling on the Powerful Women in Orwell's life – by Richard Lance Keeble Papers Orwell in Marrakech - by Kevin Carter Orwell's Aunt Nellie - by Darcy Moore Orwellian or Campbellian? 'Invisible Sources' in Orwell's 'Shooting an Elephant' and Burmese Days - by Carol Biederstadt Orwell's Evil-Scepticism - by Peter Brian Barry Orwell and Dress: The Naked Truth? - by Richard Lance Keeble Article What If He Had Lived or Waited? George Orwell and Counterfactual Biography - by John Rodden Re-evaluation Stansky and Abrahams: Orwell's First Biographers - by Darcy Moore Book Reviews By Thomas J. Sojka, Polly Hember, Jonathan Greenaway and Daniel Buckingham Volume 4   No. 1   (2019)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-753-8 Rebel? Prophet? Relic? New Perspectives on Orwell Guest Editorial Orwell's Enduring Appeal – by Sarah Gibbs Keynote Orwell, My 'Orwell' – by John Rodden Papers Red Flags, Black Ties: Orwell's Anarchist Sympathies and The Conquest of Bread in Spain – by Dana Wight Surveillance From Orwell to Orwell: The Power of Vision in Popular Culture – by Xiaozhou Li Plus Papers The Politics of the Uncanny: George Orwell and the Paranormal – by Philip Bounds Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Secret State and the Julia Conundrum – by Richard Lance Keeble Articles Memoirs of Orwell: The Quest for the Truth – by Jeffrey Meyers Barnhill: A Labour of Love – by Norman Bissell Leon Gellert, George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Darcy Moore 1984 in 2020: The Deeper Concerns – by Tom Cooper Reviews By Alexis Pogorelskin, Desmond Avery and Richard Lance Keeble Volume 3   No. 2   (2019)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-742-2 Editorial Humour beyond the gloom of Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Richard Lance Keeble Nineteen Eighty-Four and Me An Invitation to Big Brother – by Ron Bateman George Orwell and the Millennial Whoop? The Enduring Relevance of the Music of Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Carol Biederstadt Child Lore in Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Kristin Bluemel '23-F' vs '24-F': On Learning about Orwell at a Momentous Time in Spanish History – by Jes๚s Isaํas G๓mez L๓pez (Close) Encounters with George? – by John Rodden Patriarchal Norms and Sexual Desire in Michael Radford's Film of Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Martin Stollery Who was Julia? Nineteen Eighty-Four's Many Heroines – by D. J. Taylor Articles Names in Burmese Days: A Fantasia – by Douglas Kerr Orwell and Captain Robinson's 'Poet': A More Than Cautionary Note – by Phil Baker Orwell in Paris: Who Was Ruth Graves? – by Darcy Moore Gordon Bowker: So Wonderfully Insightful into Orwell the Man and his Writings – by Richard Lance Keeble Re-evaluations Tombs: Sharing Orwell's Penchant for Puncturing Shibboleths – by Darcy Moore Plus Book reviews Volume 3   No. 1   (2018)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-734-7 Special Issue: Orwell and the Arts   Guest Editorial Examining the 'Genius' of Orwell's Art – by Tim Crook Papers Keynote: Orwell and Literary Art – by Len Platt 'The Art of Donald McGill': Orwell and the Pleasures of Sex – by Richard Lance Keeble Performance and Spectation in Orwell's Burmese Days – by Douglas Kerr Orwell, Poetry and the Microphone – by Tim Crook Short Story 2017 My Year of Orwell – and One Last Gift – by Nicola Rossi Article ‘Room 103’: Orwell’s Influence on Contemporary Visual Art – by Glenn Ibbitson Other Papers Orwell and the Appeal of Opium – by Darcy Moore Orwell as Social Patriot – and British Cinema Studies – by Martin Stollery Volume 2   No. 2   (2018)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-727-9 Papers 'This Poor Wailer Among the Rebels': Orwell, O'Casey and Ireland – by John Newsinger 'A Strange Desire of Wandering': The Female Body and the Problematic Structure of A Clergyman's Daughter – by Zhang Weiliang Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World: Complementary Visions Reconsidered – by Anna Vaninskaya 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and the Journalistic Imagination – by Richard Lance Keeble Articles More Orwellian than Feminist: Comparing Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – by Ron Bateman Collecting Orwell: A Kind of Compulsion – by Darcy Moore Plus Book reviews Volume 2   No. 1   (2017)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-717-0 Special Section 1: Teaching Orwell, edited by Tim Crook Papers George Orwell versus Vera Brittain: Obliteration Bombing and the Tolerance in Wartime of Dissent in Weekly Political Publications – by Tim Luckhurst and Lesley Phippen Big Brother is Coming to an iPad Near You: Teaching Orwell in Taiwan – by Henk Vynckier Orwell and the Anarchists – by David Goodway Orwell the Teacher: Such, Such Were the Joys – by Tim Crook Articles Orwell's Children: Fighting for Voice – by Jon Preston The Rhetoric of Doublethink – by Philip Palmer A Short History of Hate – by Sean Cubitt Special Section 2: Orwell and Labour, edited by John Newsinger Orwell, the Labour Party and the Attlee Government – by John Newsinger Leaders and their Qualities: Orwell on Cripps, Bevan and Attlee – by Philip Bounds So What Kind of Democratic Socialist Was He? – by Paul Anderson Plus The Orwell Conundrum in Coming Up for Air: A Call for Action or Passive Resistance? – by Oriol Quintana Death, Hegemony and Masks: Reimaging Theories of Resistance Through the Writings of George Orwell – by Harry Bark Volume 1   No. 2   (2017)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-705-7 Papers The Architecture of Visibility: Blitzed Modernism in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four – by Lisa Mullen Beyond the Common Toad: The Animal in Orwell – by Charlie Salter C. L. R. James, George Orwell and ‘Literary Trotskyism’ – by Christian H๘gsbjerg Article It Happened in Burma Or did it? – by Ron Bateman Plus Book reviews Volume 1   No. 1   (2016)   ISBN: 978-1-84549-693-7 Papers Orwell, Poland and Polish Exiles in Paris and London – by Krystyna Wieszczek George Orwell's Conrad – by Douglas Kerr Orwell and the Anarchists – by David Goodway Only Donkeys Survive Tyranny and Dictatorship: Was Benjamin George Orwell's Alter Ego in Animal Farm? – by Tim Crook (view here) 'The End was Contained in the Beginning': Orwell's Kyauktada and Oceania – by Firas A. J. Al-Jubouri 'The Lesser Evil': Orwell and America – by John Newsinger Articles The Edges of the Empire: The Symbolism of Bladed Weapons in Orwell's Burmese Days – by Don Arp, Jr. The Poet Who Wanted to Shoot an Elephant – by Gerry Abbott Plus Book reviews and news