The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley is a writer that one generally associates with three things - Brave New World and science fiction, along with real life science, like eugenics; drug experimentation, particularly with LSD; and the Eastern spiritualism he practised in California. Huxley came from a distinguished scientific and literary family and was bound to achieve 'great things'. Brave… Continue reading The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The New Journalism movement of the 1960s was about reporting the situation exactly as it was by way of the journalist involving themselves in that situation as much as possible. This meant going in and talking to the protestors, spending nights with them in the tents, attending the entire political conference and getting to know the… Continue reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion