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 ...

RIT Press is reintroducing a rare essay by famed English writer Aldous Huxley that argues the significance and power of words. The limited edition facsimile of Huxley’s 1940 title Words and Their ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Living as we do in such an un-metaphysical age, we are in a poor frame of mind to approach the writer who said ...

EYELESS IN GAZA—Aldous Huxley— Harper ($2.50). The literary career of Aldous Huxley has been marked with many guideposts. It has not been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of ...

Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! The author of “Brave New World,” a classic of dystopian literature, was born 123 years ago Wednesday. The British novelist and intellectual, and longtime Southern ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

SINCE his first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, Aldous Huxley has been not only one of the most interesting novelists of our time but also a spokesman for his generation. He has not spoken ...