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This week’s bestsellers at Southern California’s independent bookstores

LA Daily News 02 Apr 2025
The SoCal Indie Bestsellers List for the sales week ended March 30 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound ... 1. James ... 2 ... 3 ... George Orwell ... George Orwell ... .
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War, Doublethink, and the Struggle for Survival: Geopolitics of the Gaza Genocide

Antiwar 02 Apr 2025
This mirrors the dystopian world of George Orwell’s ‘1984’, where perpetual war is waged based on cynical and false assumptions, where “war is peace… freedom is slavery… and ignorance is strength.”.
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The Europeans who built Britain

New Statesman 02 Apr 2025
Where pulp publishers, with their garish covers even for serious books such as George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, aimed “at the loins rather than the head”, Allen Lane’s Penguin opted for the purely cerebral attractions of abstraction ... [See also.
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Admit it Reeves, you agree with Osborne on austerity

The Times/The Sunday Times 01 Apr 2025
The word was employed by George Orwell in the 1930s, but it first became a common political term during the life of the 1945 Labour government ... And then it became the label for George Osborne’s policy ...
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STEVE CORBIN: Free speech and freedom of the press under assault

The Courier - Waterloo 01 Apr 2025
... Foundation’s authoritarian-oriented Project 2025 playbook with his multitude of executive orders, but many of the actions employed by the fascist rulers and tenants of George Orwell’s “1984.” ...
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Is the US heading toward Big Brother-style oppression?

Arab News 01 Apr 2025
Is the US transforming from a democracy based on freedom and individual rights into a totalitarian superstate like the one portrayed in George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984?” ... In Orwell’s book, Room ...
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English curriculum proposes compulsory Shakespeare for seniors, draft reading list revealed

NewstalkZB 01 Apr 2025
The suggested text list included the poetry of World War One poets and Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech for years 9 and 10, and at year 12, 1984 by George Orwell and the World War Two speeches of Winston Churchill ... 1984 by George Orwell.
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As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways ...

The Guardian 31 Mar 2025
The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern. the battle lines are now clear. It has come to this. we are now in Ministry of Truth territory ... George Orwell lived too soon.
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As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist

The Observer 31 Mar 2025
It has come to this. we are now in Ministry of Truth territory ...Distorted narratives” are to be rooted out. There will be no more of the “corrosive ideology” that has fostered a “sense of national shame” ... George Orwell lived too soon ... Share ... .
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Casual Gamer Reviews: Karma: The Dark World

Houston Press 31 Mar 2025
Karma. The Dark World. Rating. 10 out of 10. Note. Review is based on the PlayStation 5 version ... The Dark World ... Heavily inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984, Daniel must dive into the memories of several Leviathan employees to unravel a set of mysteries.
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Reality vs. real politik

Park Record 30 Mar 2025
They must tell the truth. They must not hide the truth ... The current administration’s embrace of “Newspeak” and “Doublethink” as envisioned by George Orwell in his classic dystopian novel, “1984,” has come true. Mr ... Fact ... Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... Park City.
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HOW TO COUNTER THE INSURGENCIES

Dawn 30 Mar 2025
“And worse I may be yet ... AP ... In a brilliant essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’, George Orwell wrote, “[A]n effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely ... X.
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Our obsession with the middle class is a comfort in troubled times

The Daily Telegraph 29 Mar 2025
It was George Orwell’s, who first described himself as such in an essay published in 1937 ... Stewart, an Old Etonian like Orwell, meant similar ... George Orwell, Rory Stewart, Eton College, Simon Cowell.
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Laurie Woolever on Her Life in Food, Addiction, and Assisting Anthony Bourdain

Vogue 29 Mar 2025
Today, she co-hosts the podcast Carbface, and continues to co-author cookbooks ... Laurie Woolever ... Why now?. This is a story that I’ve been writing in my head for a long time ... But, I mean, we had George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London ... .
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