In the first few weeks after Donald Trump got elected, George Orwell — an author who died in 1950, when Trump was still a child — saw his books rocket to the top of bestseller lists. The gaslighting ...
Orwell’s Roses shifts lyrically between Orwell’s life and a history of roses. Solnit refers to the structure of the book as “rhizomatic.” Through Orwell’s hopeful gardening, she weaves Lenin’s ...