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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 ...
In 1944, Aldous Huxley wrote a rather edgy children’s story for his young niece as a Christmas present. The story nearly vanished before it appeared in a small format with black-and-white ...
TEXTS & PRETEXTS—Aldous Huxley— Harper ($2.50). Most authors keep notebooks. In them they jot down Ideas for future reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have ...
“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 ...
APE AND ESSENCE (205 pp.)—Aldous Huxley—Harper ($2.50). “I’d rather be myself . . . Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.” So declaims the unadjustable hero of Brave New World, Aldous ...
Aldous Huxley in the 1930s and cover detail of the 2016 Vintage edition of his final novel ‘Island’ (Getty Images/Vintage Classics) Although Kerouac was probably the writer who got me writing (he made ...
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 ...