How Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four capture the age of Facebook and Trump.

John Lanchester compares in the Financial Times the dystopias of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell's classics, in the fascinating context of what they reveal about today's complex world.

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Orwell v Huxley: whose dystopia are we living in today?

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