Ian Slater's Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One (McGill-Queen's) has been reissued during Orwell's centenary-and offers George Orwell's inadvertent update of the Buddhist aphorism. 'You become what you oppose.' The author of Animal Farm and 1984 once wrote, "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.";

[BCBW Winter 2003]