Aldous Huxley

Tripping: 10 Celebrities That Have Done LSD

Posted 04.23.2012

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Sure, it's not that shocking that a few of these famous writers and actors dropped acid back in the day. But we were surprised to find out how some at...

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Brave New World Turns 80

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 04.10.2012

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Jonathan D. Moreno

Aldous Huxley's celebrated depiction of a deracinated future turns 80 this year. Perhaps no work in the genre infelicitously labeled science fiction has had so much influence or staying power.

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Moscow or Beijing?

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Authoritarianism, The New Yorker, Hu Jintao, George Orwell, Beijing, Moscow, Russia, Aldous Huxley, China, Putin, World News
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

2012 begins with the Russian and Chinese constellations once again falling into alignment.

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God Is One: A Kabbalistic Explanation

Rabbi Michael M. Cohen | Posted 01.29.2012

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Rabbi Michael M. Cohen

If life were like a movie and we were able to slow it down we would see the blank spaces between each frame, between each moment, between each change. Kabbalah is the system where we try to see those spaces.

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Confessions of an E-Book Virgin

Dave Astor | Posted 12.21.2011

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Dave Astor

Some people continued to ride a horse-and-buggy after many other people switched to cars. Maybe I'm one of those late-adopter types. But at least for now, I'm sticking with print books.

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A Dearth of Mirth at the End of Many Great Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Unhappy Endings, Wilkie Collins, Classic Novels, The House of Mirth, George Orwell, Novels, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

After just finishing The House of Mirth, I'm reminded once again that many great novels don't have happy endings.

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Review: The Ides of March

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.05.2011

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Marshall Fine

If you're too high-minded to get down in the mud with your opponent -- but your opponent can grab victory by playing dirty -- who's the winner?

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Authors Who Are Famous For The Wrong Book

guardian.co.uk | John Self | Posted 09.18.2011

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Why is it that the book for which an author is best known is rarely their best? If history is the final judge of literary achievement, why has a title...

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'A Thousand Twangling Instruments'

Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tamsin Smith

Suffering is not the opposite of joy -- they are foreground and background. One unfolds and magnifies the other. When a smile can be forged from anguish, then it's a thing of beauty and truth.

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Aldous Huxley's Brave New Storybook

nytimes.com | PAMELA PAUL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Teenagers may know Aldous Huxley as the author of "Brave New World" (assigned in tandem with "1984" in a unit on political horrors) and as the guy who...

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Things Could Be Worse: 12 Dystopian Novels You Should Read

Peter Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Steinberg

Dozens of states on the brink of bankruptcy. Congress in upheaval. Half a dozen countries in the Middle East on the brink of revolution and unemployment stuck at about 9%.

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WATCH: 'Harvard Psychedelic Club'

Don Lattin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Lattin

Here's some rare footage of an experimental LSD session that I came across doing research for my next book, a group biography of British writer Aldou...

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The Reading List: New Books About Los Angeles

Los Angeles Magazine | Wendy Witherspoon  | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every month Los Angeles Magazine highlights titles of local interest that are hitting the bookshelves. Here's what's new....

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No Time?

The Guardian | John Crace | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Nabokov, Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Aldous Huxley, Camus, Swann's Way, Classic Books, Brideshead Revisted, Brave New World, The Age of Innocence, Classic Literature, Huxley, Proust, American Literature, Lolita, Salman Rushdie, Books News

Lolita. Light of my life. Lo. Li. Ta Very Much. If you wonder where my peculiar interests came from, I should have to say it started when I was 13 wit...

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Is Monday Night Football Our Culture's Soma?

Kyle Shamberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kyle Shamberg

The never-ending carousel of pro sports gives us a never-ending soma to throw back. MNF is only the most obvious, and the grandest spectacle, of the drug.

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Three Books To Take You On That Long, Strange Trip

NPR | Don Lattin | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's been a half-century since Timothy Leary, a research psychologist at Harvard University, swallowed some magic mushrooms down in Mexico and decided...

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Who Says All Religions Are the Same?

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Philip Goldberg

The truth is, religions are both different and alike, depending on where one looks. And we need to look at the whole picture, because when we lean too far in either direction we lose our balance.

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Philip K. Dick Needed A Co-Author

The Guardian | Darragh McManus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dick took outlandish, almost inconceivable ideas and worked them through, making them real and plausible through the strictures and structures of a fo...

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A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Farr

It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.

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Why Obama Dissed the Internet, and Why the Internet Doesn't Get It

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alex Pasternack

Obama's point IT's ability to distract us isn't that new technology allows for too many divergent views. It's that the internet narrows opinion to a few fairly predictable and easily reproducible one-liners.

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Sleep: Memory, Technology And The Future

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.17.2011

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Richard Laermer

Despite the initial promise of sleep learning, the general consensus in the scientific community is that such research is outdated. However, the same collective seems to be taking another look at sleep now.

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