The Ministry of Truth (Lynskey book)

The Ministry of Truth

First edition (UK)
Author	Dorian Lynskey
Subject	History of literature
Publication date	May 2019 Picador (UK) June 2019 Doubleday (US)
Pages	368
ISBN	9780385544054

External videos
The author discusses the book on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 is a book-length history of George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four written by Dorian Lynskey and published by Doubleday in 2019.

Further reading

• Athitakis, Mark (May 28, 2019). "'Ministry of Truth': Lively history of Orwell's '1984'". Newsday. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Aaronovitch, David (May 17, 2019). "The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey review — Orwell in the age of Trump". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460.
• "Big Brother's long afterlife". The Economist. May 23, 2019. ISSN 0013-0613.
• Bisley, Alexander (June 4, 2019). "'Any Attempt to Claim Orwell for the Right Is Dishonest': An Interview With Dorian Lynskey". Pacific Standard. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Bradfield, Scott (June 13, 2019). "Why '1984' is still relevant today — but not for the reason you may expect". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Carey, John (May 19, 2019). "The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey review — why 1984 is not as good as Animal Farm". The Sunday Times. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Drabble, Margaret (June 4, 2019). "Ministry of brains". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Hogan, Ron (June 8, 2019). "How disease, war and a remote Scottish island inspired George Orwell's '1984'". New York Post. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Mendes, Lev (June 5, 2019). "The Making of '1984,' George Orwell's Nightmare Vision of a World Without Truth". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
• Packer, George (June 8, 2019). "The Unheeded Message of '1984'". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
• Smith, Wendy (June 21, 2019). "Review: How the world of '1984' haunts our present". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
• Taylor, D. J. (May 22, 2019). "The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey review – what inspired Orwell's masterpiece?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.

External links

• Official website