This sharp, quietly unsettling line comes from George Orwell, a writer best remembered not for comfort, but for clarity. Orwell had a rare ability to notice patterns people prefer to ignore—and then ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...