<i>1984</i> Isn’t the Only Book Enjoying a Revival
Works by Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, and Hannah Arendt have also had a spike in interest over the past year.
by Sophie Gilbert
Jan 25, 2017
3 minutes
George Orwell’s is, at this moment, the at Amazon.com—quite a feat for any novel, let alone one published 67 years ago. The resurgence of interest in Orwell’s dystopian portrait of an authoritarian society in which facts have been eliminated is credited to an interview on on Sunday, in which the presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway told Chuck Todd that administration claims about inauguration attendees weren’t falsehoods but “.” Many on social media by
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