Aldous Huxley A Biography by Nicholas Murray Thomas Dunne, 496 pp., $29.95 ALDOUS HUXLEY published fifty books before his death in 1963. For years he was one of Britain's most-recognizable writers: ...

“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 ...

Author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 and died on November 22, 1963—exactly 56 years ago today. In his memory, we’re republishing Jay Stevens’ ...

With his eerie dystopian vision, this year’s winner of a book illustration competition would do Aldous Huxley proud. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic, was the intriguingly unsettling ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1984 commercial based on 1984 is like taking a sledgehammer to Orwell's memory, but big tech has proved itself an entirely different kind of big brother. In a new interview, Scott reveals that he ...

The Quote of the day by Aldous Huxley is still relevant because it captures a central dilemma of modern life: how to maintain agency in a world shaped by forces beyond individual control.

There seems to be two occasions when people most enjoy making predictions: anniversaries (think the American Bicentennial, New Year’s, etc) and dates that include round numbers (any year ending in ...

I FIRST met Aldous Huxley in California, during the early summer of 1939. The Huxleys, Gerald Heard, and another close friend, named Christopher Wood, had moved out there from Europe to settle two ...