Aldous Huxley

Author foresaw the threat to civilisation and the crisis of meaning created by automation

Historical phenomenon shaped by imperial and Christian national past

WikiLeaks dump exposes an overweight CIA’s commercial links

From 1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, It Can’t Happen Here and Brave New World, readers are turning to books for insights into an America changing before their eyes

The medical term for hangover is ‘uneasiness following debauchery’

The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary life

A Sicilian living in Ireland recognises what it is to be an islander: an obsessive curiosity for what makes us different

A German-Irish production reshapes Huxley’s enduring dystopian vision

Happy Birthday copyright, the ‘diesel dupe’ and the Goldman Sachs reading list

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time

Opinion: Internet has not lived up to its aspirations

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions