"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.'"
A selective list of literary criticism for Aldous Huxley, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Baker, James R. "Golding and Huxley: The Fables of Demonic Possession" [William Golding and Aldous Huxley]. In Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2000
Cushman, Keith. "'I refuse to be Rampioned': Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, and Point Counter Point." In Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point: A Casebook, Dalkey Archive Press
Derbyshire, John. "What Happened to Aldous Huxley?" In the New Criterion, Vol. 21, No. 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
Grosvenor, Peter. "Progress, Elitism and Ideology in Point Counter Point as a Novel of Ideas." In Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point: A Casebook, Dalkey Archive Press
Hobby, Blake G. "Created Sick, Commanded to be Sound: Point Counter Point's Self-Referential Wordmusic." In Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point: A Casebook, Dalkey Archive Press
Izzo, David Garrett. "Introduction: A Matter of Influence: Life, Art, Thought and Point Counter Point"
Marovitz, Sanford E. "Point Counter Point: Huxley's Tragi-Comic Performance of the 'Human Fugue.'" In Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point: A Casebook, Dalkey Archive Press
Meckier, Jerome. "Aldous Huxley's Americanization of the Brave New World typescript." An extended critical article, in Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 2002
Nordgren, Joe. A substantial introduction to Aldous Huxley, from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/19/05
Paulsell, Sally A. "Color and light: Huxley's pathway to spiritual reality." [Aldous Huxley] In Twentieth Century Literature, Spring, 1995
A biographical introduction to Aldous Huxley from Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
"Is Sex Still Sexy? Orwell and Huxley foretell late-20th-century sexual mores." By John O'Sullivan, National Review
Overview of Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, Crome Yellow, and Point Counter Point, from the Center for Book Culture
Short overview of Aldous Huxley from the (UK) Guardian
The Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies at the Univ. 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
Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point: A Casebook. Edited by David Garrett Izzo and Edward McShane. From Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction: Web-Based Casebooks, Dalkey Archive Press. Other casebooks through the Dalkey Archives for Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass; The Magic Kingdom by Stanley Elkin; At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien; AVA by Carole Maso; The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin; Geometric Regional Novel by Gert Jonke; The Great Fire of London by Jacques Roubaud; Pushkin House by Andrei Bitov; The Tunnel by William H. Gass; Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmael Reed
Information about the Aldous Huxley papers at the Univ. of Texas
Web site for the Society for Utopian Studies
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