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Dorian Lynskey

AUTHOR, JOURNALIST & PODCASTER
 

Dorian Lynskey has been writing about music, politics, film and books for over 20 years for publications including The Guardian, The Observer, i, BBC Culture, GQ, Q, MOJO, Empire, Billboard, Air Mail, Pitchfork, The New Statesman, The Spectator, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Times, UnHerd, The Big Issue, The Village Voice, Mixmag, Select, Blender and Spin. He is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (2011) and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 (2019), which was longlisted for both the Orwell Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize. His next book, Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World, is out on 11 April 2024 (UK) and January 2025 (US). He co-hosts the podcasts Origin Story (with Ian Dunt) and Oh God, What Now?. He is on the editorial board of George Orwell Studies and a judge for the 2024 Orwell Prizes.