BANNED‘Color Purple’ Removed From Schools Under New Florida LawAlice Walker’s classic is among 673 titles taken out of Orange County classrooms to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ law requiring schools to remove “sexual content” from shelves.Kate Briquelet
HIGHS AND LOWSCary Grant Dances on LSD. Everyone Else Has a Bad Trip.“Flying Over Sunset” imagines Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, and Clare Booth Luce dropping LSD together, and having dull trips. At least there is Tony Yazbeck’s dazzling dancing.Tim Teeman
ARMCHAIR TRAVELERTravel Like a Snob with ‘A Brave New World’ AuthorMany of us worldwide are stuck at home, which means it's the perfect opportunity to escape with a great travel book. Our first selection? Aldous Huxley's "Along the Road."Christopher Dickey
WIREDThe Motherboard Inside Your BrainBrain scientists are working to turn on and off behavior with electricity—and possibly motivation and optimism, too. How a few milli-amps of electric current could change your life. David Ewing Duncan
AuteurCormac Beats the Curse<p>Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Huxley—none of the great novelists ever had an original screenplay produced. Cormac McCarthy has. But is his new movie, <i>The Counselor</i>, any good? By Andrew Romano.</p> Andrew Romano
ACID DROPPERSTripping With the Stars<p>It’s probably no shock many to hear that Angelina Jolie and the Beatles dropped acid at different points in their lives. Now ‘Lawless’ star Shia LaBeouf has revealed that he did LSD to prepare for a role in ‘The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman.’ But who would have guessed that Cary Grant and Marge Simpson were acid fans? See more stars who went on special trips, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWlKCfSPcU" target="_blank">Roger Sterling–style.</a></p> The Daily Beast
Going PlacesLicensed to WriteThe Ransom Center shares with us the passports of Norman Mailer, Lillian Hellman, Sybille Bedford and more.The Daily Beast
Eat Pray Love's Spiritual TourismElizabeth Gilbert’s search for nirvana in India is a part of a long tradition of misguided Western spiritual tourism in the country, writes author Gita Mehta.Gita Mehta
Tripping With the StarsAs the FDA paves the way for clinical LSD trials, scientists are exploring its medical benefits. Is acid the new Xanax? Plus, from Angelina to The Beatles, a gallery of celebrity trippers.
