This weekend marks the twenty year anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. On April 5th, 1994, the news was heard: the lead singer of Nirvana had apparently committed suicide. Although the group had only been in the public consciousness for just over two years, it seemed a monumental announcement. Even to those who weren’t passionate fans […]

This will undoubtedly be the most intimidating of the three Orwell reviews to write; to do so, I have to give my thoughts on two of the most discussed novels of the 20th century in Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty Four. This slate of books starts on the verge of the Second World War. In fact, […]

  Orwell’s third novel, Keep the Apidistra Flying (1936), goes deeper into the world of poverty than any of Orwell’s previous long works by making explicit the protagonist’s clear minded choice of accepting poverty when the option of a bourgeois lifestyle is open to him. Despite Orwell’s denunciation of the work (like A Clergyman’s Daughter […]

  I recall vividly the first time I ever saw Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope, or Star Wars as it was simply known then. I was four years old and it was on its original cinematic release. I loved it. So much so that I wet myself. Literally. I didn’t want to leave […]

George Orwell was a huge influence on me when I was younger. I read Nineteen Eighty Four as a thirteen year old and thought it was quite possibly the greatest thing I’d ever been exposed to up until that point, with the possible exception of the first Ramones album. I went on to read all […]