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http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/04/20030430_b_main.asp John Rodden, author, "The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell" and "Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell"
Daphne Patai, professor of Spanish and Portuguese literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and author of "The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology.
http://www.ubc.ca/talkofthetown/2003/spring/orwell.html The Politics of Literary Reputation
The Politics of Literary Reputation by John Rodden (published by Oxford University Press, 1989) is an insightful examination of the battles by various camps to "claim" George Orwell. It is available at the Vancouver Public Library: http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/
Links & Readings
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2002-10-23.htm
The Atlantic Online interviewed Hitchens about Why Orwell Matters in October 2002.
www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/030127crat_atlarge www.newyorker.com/printable/?online/030127on_onlineonly01
The New Yorker published a critical review of Why Orwell Matters by Louis Menand as well as an on-line interview with Menand.
www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030217&s=diarist021703
Writing in the New Republic, Leon Wieseltier presents what he thinks Menand should have learned from Orwell.
www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/digest/014/ash.html
In the Hoover Digest, Timothy Garten Ash wrote about Orwell and Politics in 2001.
www.online-literature.com/orwell/
The Literature Network has published many of Orwell's essays on-line as well as two novels (Animal Farm and 1984).
www.assumption.edu/dept/history/His130/PoliticsAndLanguage.html
Orwell's famous essay, Politics and the English Language, is available on-line here.
Michael Pugliese