Aldous Huxley isn't as famous as George Orwell is ... Morrison's band took their name from The Doors Of Perception, Huxley's book about his experiences with the drug mescaline.

1. Brave New World By Aldous Huxley If you love Dystopian novels, this is the book for you, as it is definitely a blueprint for modern favorites like The Hunger Games and Divergent. The writing ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

When Aldous Huxley published his essay "The Doors of Perception" in 1954, he did much to publicize a very strange drug. "Mescaline," he writes, "admits one to an other-world of light, color ...