Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007
The Sharpest Thorn
By Frank Kermode
Orwell in Tribune: "As I Please" and Other Writings 1943–7
compiled and edited by Paul Anderson
Politico's, 401 pp. $30.00
During his years as literary editor and columnist on the left-wing weekly Tribune George Orwell wrote, in addition to his journalism, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Tribune suited him very well, letting him do as he pleased, offering a measure of political agreement but also a background against which his boldness and oddity stood out very clearly.
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