Richard Lance Keeble has been Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln since 2003. He is the author or editor of 30 books on a wide range of subjects. In 2014 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Journalism Education.

Contents: Richard Blair: An In-Depth Look into Orwell's Complex Mind - Richard Lance Keeble: Orwell Now: Nothing Less Than a Cultural Icon - Peter Marks: George Orwell and the History of Surveillance Studies - Florian Zollmann: Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014: Power, Militarism and Surveillance in Western Democracies - Henk Vynckier: A Portrait of the Artist as a Collector: Tracing Orwell's Collecting Project from Burma to Big Brother - Adam Stock: Little Nephews: Big Brother's Literary Offspring - Paul Anderson: In Defence of Bernard Crick - Luke Seaber: Trust the Teller and Not the Tale: Reflections on Orwell's Hidden Rhetoric of Truthfulness in the London Section of Down and Out in Paris and London - John Newsinger: Orwell's Socialism - Philip Bounds: Sectarians on Wigan Pier: George Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain - Marina Remy: First Encounters and the Writing of Otherness in Burmese Days and Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Sreya Mallika Datta/Utsa Mukherjee: «Pukka Sahibs» and «Yellow Faces»: Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell's Burma - Shu-chu Wei: Critiquing Communist Dictatorship East and West: George Orwell's Animal Farm and Chen Jo-hsi's Mayor Yin - Tim Crook: George Orwell and the Radio Imagination - Richard Lance Keeble: Orwell and the War Reporter's Imagination - Peter Stansky: Why Orwell Is More Relevant Today Than Ever Before.