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 ...

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 ...

Like many great works of literature, Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World has, at various times, been banned, challenged as a fraud, or otherwise pissed upon by the nitpicking masses. In this ...

This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics A certain weariness came over me at the prospect of this adaptation of Aldous ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

“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 ...

Continuing a series started by former reporter and current digital editor Carson Abernethy in 2016, the arts and culture editors will drink their way through great works of literature, reviewing books ...

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 ...