Out of this world in 1931: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Out of this world in 1931: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I’ve always been fascinated with dystopian literature and science fiction movies from Blade Runner, Fahrenheit 451, Logan’s Run to Terminator. Hulu’s reboot of the 1985 novel ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood put me back on the dystopian literature trail and I finally got round to Brave New World recently. Here are my thoughts: Brave…

The Nobel Prize for Wifehood, short review of ‘The Wife’ movie

The Nobel Prize for Wifehood, short review of ‘The Wife’ movie

We all know the line, “Behind every great man is a great woman”, well here’s the story of unassuming Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) as she travels to Stockholm to see her gregarious husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. Based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same title, I’m told she was meticulous with…

Navel gazing narratives

Navel gazing narratives

Fiction is my thing probably because I don’t ‘do‘ realism. I’ve read a few biographies over the years, mainly about writers, artists or actors and their journey to stardom, oblivion, wealth, addiction, obsession, madness and so on and often a nasty combination of all of the above. I have noticed that books labouring over one’s…