George Orwell died on this day, January 21st, in 1950. Maria Popova shared a couple of post from her website, The Marginalian, worth reading.

• George Orwell on Writing and the Four Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves
• Haunting Illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four,’ Introduced by the Courageous Journalist Who Broke the Edward Snowden Story