George Orwell

I just finished reading David Lebedoff’s THE SAME MAN: GEORGE ORWELL & EVELYN WAUGH IN LOVE AND WAR (Random House 2008), a double biography that argues that Orwell, aka Eric Blair (liberal/radical, anti-status, atheist) and Evelyn Waugh (social climber and party boy, strict and self-tormenting Catholic) actually had much in common, including a dread that […]