Editorial

Finally: The rat has a voice - by Richard Lance Keeble

Short Story

Nineteen Eighty-Four: The rat's tale - by D.J. Taylor

Papers

Love, hate and freedom in Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Peter Brian Barry The picture of Winston Smith: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siecle legacy - by Henk Vynckier 'A sinking sensation': George Orwell and the RMS Titanic - by Nathan Waddell Modernism, realism and 'natural narrative': Contrasting 'A hanging' and 'Shooting an elephant' - by Cris Yelland Samuel Butler: The Victorian Orwell - by Hassan Akram Reading Orwell from the Global South - by Debora Reis Tavares Orwell's middle age anxiety - by Carrie Kancilia

Interview

L.J. Hurst in conversation with Masha Karp, author of the widely-acclaimed George Orwelland Russia

Articles

Captain Robinson: 'The Most Disreputable Englishman in Mandalay' - by Phil Baker 'A disillusioned little middle class boy': George Orwell, Harry Pollitt and The Road to Wigan Pier - by John Newsinger The two Arthurs - by Darcy Moore How I constructed the Newspeak language from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Brennan Conaway

Poems

'That bloody book', by John Scarborough; 'Elephant', 'George ponders dictatorship' and 'Shot but full', by Steve DalzellBook Reviews

Book reviews

Sarah E. Cornish on Julia, by Sandra Newman; Douglas Kerr on Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux

And Finally

A special diary column for Orwellians - by New Pitcher