Why Orwell Matters

From the bestselling author and iconoclast Christopher Hitchens, a bracing reappraisal of George Orwell’s life and thought

“Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century.”—The Boston Globe

In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic...