Orwell, the Tory anarchist, he joked about himself, from the lower-upper-middle class. We know everything else about the prolific Orwell, the socialist who abominated the Soviet Union in his masterpiece, 1984. The line that recurs, chapter after chapter, is this: “In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” He also kept a goat, and cared about his trees-factoids about Orwell, but maybe keys to his work. Rebecca Solnit’s striking, fresh take on the late great George Orwell comes in a book-length essay titled Orwell’s Roses. It’s the kind of curious, critical, high-energy conversation we’re all missing nowadays. Christopher Lydon circles the big ideas in culture, the arts and politics with the smartest people in the world. Open Sourceis the world’s longest-running podcast.
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