Culture: August 2009 Archives

Rose and Laura Wilder and the Little House stories : The New Yorker

The fascinating story behind the much-loved stories of life on the frontier: Daughter Rose's role in editing mother Laura's stories, and the link to modern Libertarian politics.

1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell | Books | The Observer

"In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It became one of the most significant novels of the 20th century. Here, Robert McCrum tells the compelling story of Orwell's torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and beset by creative demons, was engaged in a feverish race to finish the book"