Animal Farm review – Andy Serkis’ Orwell adaptation slaughters the classic farmyard satire with sugar

The passionate allegory on Stalinism is outrageously reduced to happy-ending panto in this defanged animation featuring the voices of Seth Rogen, Laverne Cox and Glenn Close ...
Post and Courier

Animal Instinct Rich in Allegory

When the tortoise defeats the hare in a race, we learn that the prize does not always go to the swiftest; when the crow is deceived by the fox, the reader is taught to be wary of flattery. In these ...
The New York Times

From ‘Life of Pi’ Author, Stuffed-Animal Allegory About Holocaust

Yann Martel’s 2001 novel, “Life of Pi,” was a charming, eccentric fable — part philosophical meditation on God, part children’s adventure story about a boy’s voyage across the ocean on a lifeboat with ...
LancasterOnline

‘Animal Farm’ is an allegory for the demise of a democratic nation [letter]

If you’re looking for a book to read these days, may I suggest George Orwell’s short novel “Animal Farm.” It takes place at the fictitious Manor Farm, and chronicles the overthrow of the cruel master ...