1984: 75th Anniversary

Orwell's dystopia about a totalitarian superstate where truth is whatever the Party says it is. Winston Smith, a drone at the Ministry of Truth, begins keeping a diary and falls for a woman named Julia — small acts of rebellion in a world where thoughtcrime itself is a capital offense. Three-quarters of a century later, the vocabulary of 1984 — Big Brother, doublethink, memory hole — has become the vocabulary we reach for whenever we try to describe what's happening.