Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World

The Most Natural Thing in the World III

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Desmond Traynor

To tell you the truth, I could easily have been a father, and I would be a father now, had my wife J not miscarried a baby we once made. This was in 2002, so he or she would have been eighteen by now. So strange to envisage it: another life – for me, for … Read more

J. G. Ballard: Foreshadowing Collapse

February 12, 2021February 9, 2021 David Langwallner

The fusion of mood and setting, the mapping of a landscape of the troubled mind – that is what really matters in Ballard. Martin Amis I have been drawing attention for some time to the disintegration of a neo-liberal world order. The pandemic has delivered the coup de grâce, but the fighter’s limbs had been … Read more