George Orwell and the Horrors of Contemporary Publishing

Reviewing the introduction to a book seems like a very 2025 pursuit. Do we read so little nowadays that we don’t review books — just the introductions? But there isn’t much point in reviewing 1984 — quite possibly the book that more of my subscribers will have already read than any other. So, I’m going to review the author Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s new int…