Editorial Finally: The rat has a voice - by Richard Lance Keeble Short Story Nineteen Eighty-Four: The rat's tale - by D.J. Taylor Papers Love, hate and freedom in Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Peter Brian BarryThe picture of Winston Smith: George Orwell, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle legacy - by Henk Vynckier'A sinking sensation': George Orwell and the RMS Titanic - by Nathan WaddellModernism, realism and 'natural narrative': Contrasting 'A hanging' and 'Shooting an elephant' - by Cris YellandSamuel Butler: The Victorian Orwell - by Hassan AkramReading Orwell from the Global South - by Débora Reis TavaresOrwell's middle age anxiety - by Carrie Kancilia Interview L.J. Hurst in conversation with Masha Karp, author of the widely-acclaimed George Orwelland Russia Articles Captain Robinson: 'The Most Disreputable Englishman in Mandalay' - by Phil Baker'A disillusioned little middle class boy': George Orwell, Harry Pollitt and The Road to Wigan Pier - by John NewsingerThe two Arthurs - by Darcy MooreHow I constructed the Newspeak language from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Brennan Conaway Poems 'That bloody book', by John Scarborough; 'Elephant', 'George ponders dictatorship' and 'Shot but full', by Steve DalzellBook Reviews Book reviews Sarah E. Cornish on Julia, by Sandra Newman; Douglas Kerr on Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux And Finally A special diary column for Orwellians - by New Pitcher