Ed Simon is a staff writer at The Millions. His book An Alternative History of Pittsburgh (2021) is available from Belt Publishing. Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (2022) will be available this winter from Abrams.
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Writing on Public Books
Tending Orwell’s Garden
Orwell was free from doctrinaire sectarianism. At the same time, he firmly hated the exact bastards who deserve to be hated.
“Hopelessness Makes Possible a New Hope”
Though it’s more than a hundred miles from the coast, during the early evening of October 29, 2012, my apartment in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had the salty …













