Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'"

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literary criticism

Baker, James R. "Golding and Huxley: The Fables of Demonic Possession." Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2000

Derbyshire, John. "What Happened to Aldous Huxley?" New Criterion 21, 6 (Feb. 2003)

Dunaway, David King. A review of Dunaway's Huxley in Hollywood (Harper & Row). Reviewed in Virginia Quarterly Review by Guin A. Nance, Winter 1991

Izzo, David Garrett. "Introduction: A Matter of Influence: Life, Art, Thought and Point Counter Point"

Meckier, Jerome. "Aldous Huxley's Americanization of the Brave New World typescript." An extended critical article. Twentieth Century Literature, Winter 2002

Nordgren, Joe. A substantial introduction to Aldous Huxley, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 19 July 2005 [subscription service]

Paulsell, Sally A. "Color and light: Huxley's pathway to spiritual reality." Twentieth Century Literature, Spring 1995

introduction & web sites

"Is Sex Still Sexy? Orwell and Huxley foretell late-20th-century sexual mores." By John O'Sullivan, National Review

Short overview of Aldous Huxley from the (UK) Guardian

The Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies at the U of Münster, Germany. The web site includes an extensive bibliography of recent scholarly publications on Aldous Huxley, along with the Table of Contents for the Aldous Huxley Annual and news and information about scholarly activity connected with Huxley

Information about the Aldous Huxley papers at the U of Texas

Web site for the Society for Utopian Studies

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