“You shall know the truth,” Aldous Huxley once said, “and the truth shall make you mad.” You’d be hard-pressed to find a quote more emblematic of the late English author, who was born 122 years ago ...
What did the future look like 60 years ago? On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. On the same day, two significant writers also died: C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. That ...
Seated on a veranda high in the Hollywood Hills, a few book clubbers who had gathered to discuss Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” in the author’s last Los Angeles home craned their necks. They ...
Nicholas Murray faces two frustrations as a biographer of Aldous Huxley. One, paradoxically, is that Huxley was a conscientious archivist who kept, for instance, the love letters exchanged with his ...
Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 and died on November 22, 1963—exactly 56 years ago today. In his memory, we’re republishing Jay Stevens’ ...
Many of us worldwide are stuck at home, which means it's the perfect opportunity to escape with a great travel book. Our first selection? Aldous Huxley's "Along the Road." World News Editor PARIS—An ...
They were both critically acclaimed writers who were ahead of their time, creating imaginative visions of the future in their novels. But an enlightening letter sent by Aldous Huxley to his fellow ...
David Hofmeyr on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: 'a subversive, cool and unsettling work of genius'
On the anniversary of Aldous Huxley’s birthday, the author of the Stone Ride r series explains how Huxley set the benchmark for all dystopia to follow with his work of sinister genius, Brave New World ...
Host Scott Simon reads listener's letters about Aldous Huxley's only children's book and an interview last week with cellist Alisa Weilerstein. Time now for your letters. Daniel Pinkwater joined us ...
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