Remember high school English class reading assignments? Sometimes those dense classics were even enough to make the booklovers in the classroom groan. But every now and then, an assigned reading would ...

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An oral history of Apple’s groundbreaking “1984” spot, which helped to establish the Super Bowl as TV’s biggest commercial showcase. By Saul Austerlitz Four decades ago, the Super Bowl became the ...

Mr. English is the author of, among other books, “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.” I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the ...