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Peter Ross is author of Daunderlust and The Passion Of Harry Bingo. He is a freelance journalist and lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown.
Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.
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