Brave New World

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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'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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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

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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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What Has Happened To Political Fiction?

The Guardian | Stuart Evers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Contemporary political novels -- the ones that sell, at least -- are more concerned with political disengagement than they are with values or beliefs....

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A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

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