The Lure of Orwell

Novelist, biographer, literary historian, wide-ranging and unfailingly entertaining reviewer blessedly resistant to fashionable cant, D. J. Taylor is the Orwell supremo for our time. His 2003 Orwell: The Life, unsurpassed in the twenty years since it appeared, now gives way to his fresh take on the subject—Orwell: The New Life, to be released on May 23.