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Aldous Huxley

April 2022

  • Detail from Brave New World by Fred Fordham.

    Graphic novel of the month
    Brave New World by Fred Fordham review – brilliant Huxley reboot

    This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics

January 2022

  • A scene from the TV version of The Handmaid's Tale

    The Guardian view on prescience in novels: reading the future

    Editorial: Literature can be surprisingly accurate in predicting what lies ahead

October 2020

  • Polished, empty fun … Brave New World.

    Brave New World review – or should that be Brave Nude World?

    Sky’s nine-part adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic hasn’t got much to say – but that’s easy to ignore with all the bare flesh on show

September 2020

  • Hannah John-Kamen<br>In this Sunday, June 24, 2018 photo, Actress Hannah John-Kamen poses for a portrait during press day for “Ant-Man and The Wasp” at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, Calif. John-Kamen plays the villain Ghost in “Ant-Man and The Wasp,” which will be released on Friday, July 6, 2018, in North America. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

    Hannah John-Kamen: 'I love that Brave New World is too close to home'

    From Black Mirror to Ready Player One, the Yorkshire-born actor has spent her career delving into dystopia – making her ideally placed to star in a prescient adaptation of Huxley’s novel

May 2020

  • Review Books Web Hay Lees

    Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more

    If you currently feel confined, reading can open up new worlds. Authors and thinkers at this year’s Hay Festival Digital recommend books to take you on a journey

April 2020

  • The Beatles in 1967

    From Aldous Huxley to the Beatles: how LSD has inspired art

    As scientist David Nutt campaigns for drug rules to change, we look at artists who said yes to psychedelic culture

June 2019

  • Benicio del Toro and Johnny Depp in the 1998 film of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

    Book of the day
    Mescaline by Mike Jay review – a global history of the first psychedelic

    From the ancient Andes to Aldous Huxley’s trousers – the uses and abuses of ‘fiendish cactus juice’

October 2017

  • Alex (Malcolm McDowell with a glass of Moloko Plus in Stanley Kubrick’s film of A Clockwork Orange.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 imaginary drugs in fiction

    From the mind-bending potion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Don DeLillo’s cure for the fear of death, these are some of the most potent hits in literature

August 2017

  • Mitochondrial Silhouettes, Microscopic View<br>D0HGDK Mitochondrial Silhouettes, Microscopic View

    Gene editing isn’t about designer babies, it’s about hope for people like me

    Alex Lee
    What gives someone without an incurable condition the right to stand in the way of life-saving treatments, asks Alex Lee, who lost his sight to a hereditary disease

February 2017

  • Eye 1984

    My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World

    The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about it

December 2016

  • Francis Huxley

    Francis Huxley obituary

    Anthropologist fascinated by shamanism, myths and religious rites who strove to protect indigenous peoples

October 2015

  • Jorn telegram

    Letters of note
    Letters of note: what writers said – in pictures

    Why Spike Milligan fell out of love with George Harrison, words of wisdom from Kurt Vonnegut and the murder threat Jeffrey Bernard forgot ... Shaun Usher’s More Letters of Note mines the archives for more gems of the epistolary arts

September 2015

  • Brave New World: Gruffudd Glyn, Sophie Ward and William Postlethwaite star at the Royal and Derngate theatre, Northampton

    James Dacre: are we living Brave New World's nightmare future?

    James Dacre
    The director of the first authorised stage dramatisation of Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World reflects on why its human-centred vision is more relevant than ever in today’s selfish, technology-led consumer society
  • brave new world theatre

    Brave New World review – impressive but frustrating

    Melodrama and anticlimax weaken an often dazzling adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s classic
  • Olivia Morgan and William Postlethwaite, centre, in Brave New World

    Brave New World review – a drama of present-day dystopia

    The audience are cast as new recruits at Aldous Huxley’s Hatchery in James Dacre and Dawn King’s stage version

October 2014

  • huxley brave new world

    The 100 best novels
    The 100 best novels: No 56 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)

    Aldous Huxley’s vision of a future human race controlled by global capitalism is every bit as prescient as Orwell’s more famous dystopia, writes Robert McCrum

August 2014

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Forget Orwell and Huxley – Dave Eggers has seen the future

    John Naughton
    If you want an up-to-the-minute literary vision of where mass surveillance might take us, look no further than your local bookshop, writes John Naughton
  • Aldous Huxley smoking, circa 1946

    Radio review
    Taking the Edge Off: an Aldous Huxley study that's a bit like a bad trip – review

    Priya Elan: Delving into the author's mescaline-fuelled The Doors Of Perception, this programme came up with too many stultifying moments
  • Jim Broadbent and Katherine Helmond in Brazil by Terry Gilliam

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best dystopias

    Last week we brought you our 10 best Dystopias. Here, we present your thoughts on what should have made the list

April 2014

  • Hamlet

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels inspired by Shakespeare

    It's the end of Shakespeare's birthday week, but the playwright has provided year-round inspiration for writers from Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith
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