Overview
- Contemporizes Orwell for Academic Use
- Contextualizes Orwell, Animal Farm, MI6, the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
- Presents Orwell & "The Cold War" (Orwell's term) globally
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“A pig returns to the farm, thumbing his snout at Orwell ... the world had a new evil to deal with, and it was not communism.” (The New York Times)
“Snowball’s Chance parodies Orwell’s Animal Farm, dragging it kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century.” (Publisher’s Weekly)
“Reed’s tale, crafted amid Ground Zero’s dust, is chilling in its clarity and inspired in its skewering of Orwell’s stilted style. Whether you liked or loathed the original, there’s no denying Reed has captured the state of the farm today.” (The Fort Myers News-Press)
“Reed has managed to take a dated masterpiece ... and revive it for the odd, casino-like social and political world we’re mired in today; in the process he’s created his own masterpiece.” (Creative Loafing, Charlotte)
“Orwell’s sacred pigs get a proper roast.” (The Portland Tribune)
“Fearless, provocative, and both reverent and irreverent at the same time.” (WordRiot)
“Some books double as a matchstick: if struck in the right conditions, they can cause a wildfire.” (The Rumpus)
“Reed has brought music’s remix culture to literature with stunning results.” (largeheartedboy)
“Reed skewers our early twenty-first century (edgy, tragic, absurd) with a marvelously precise wit.” (Locus Magazine)
“Snowball’s gambit is to turn the farm into a giant spectacle of happiness, and his Animal Fair represents more than just a place: it names an entire ethos.” (Guernica)
“One of the keenest thinkers of our time.” (PopMatters)
“A brilliant and challenging tour de force. Which could be said about every book of his.” (Michael Lally)
“John Reed has been writing hard-to-classify books for over a decade, to great acclaim and sometimes greater notoriety.” (Bomb Magazine)
“This book has something to upset almost everyone who reads it, just like a good book should.” (Dennis Loy Johnson)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Reed is the author of A Still Small Voice; The Whole; the SPD bestseller, Snowball’s Chance; All The World’s A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare; Tales of Woe; Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems; A Drama In Time: The New School Century; and The Family Dolls: A Manson Paper + Play Book. He's contributed to, among other venues: Guernica, ElectricLit, The Brooklyn Rail, Tin House, Paper Magazine, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Bomb Magazine, Art in America, The Los Angeles Times, The Believer, The Rumpus, Observer, PEN Poetry Series, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Slate, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, The New York Times, Harpers, and Rolling Stone, and he's been anthologized in (selected) Best American Essays. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is an associate professor and the current director of the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Never End
Book Subtitle: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the Origin of Animal Farm
Authors: John Reed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0765-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-0764-9Published: 28 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-0767-0Due: 28 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-0765-6Published: 27 July 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 188
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Communication